Psychic Investigators : Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age.

"Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs....

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Sera-Shriar, Efram (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
シリーズ:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3415002
目次:
  • When Victorian anthropology entered the séance room
  • Alfred Russel Wallace : the believer
  • Edward Burnett Tylor : the skeptic
  • Andrew Lang : the revisionist
  • Edward Clodd : the disbeliever
  • Legacies of late Victorian spirit investigations.