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Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil /
"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move ..." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a rivetin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move ..." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (239 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781598747409 1598747401 131541984X 9781315419848 1315419858 9781315419855 9781315419831 1315419831 |