Communicating with the Spirits /
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical arche...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press
2005.
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| Series: | Demons, spirits, witches ;
v. 1. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctt2jbnm1 |
| Summary: | Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation -- trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| ISBN: | 142371749X 9781423717492 9789637326134 9637326138 6155053561 9786155053566 |