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....
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2022.
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| Serie: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Länkar: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3415002 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.