The realm of the extra-human : agents and audiences / editor, Agehananda Bharati.
The realm of the extra-human : agents and audiences / editor, Agehananda Bharati.
The realm of the extra-human : agents and audiences / editor, Agehananda Bharati.
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The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed by Aldine, c1976.
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T0179009
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xii, 556 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
A Peruvian curandero's séance: power and balance / Douglas Sharon -- Esoteric rituals in Japanese traditional secret societies: a study of the death and rebirth motif / Tsuneo Ayabe -- Ritual, myth, and the murdered president / Dorothy Willner -- Pandharpur priesthood: its changing role, functions,...
Introduction / Agehananda Bharati -- Neo-Hindu acculturation: an alternative to "instant chemical religion" / Robert J. Fornaro -- Lévi-Strauss in fairyland / Lorna McDougall -- Gods, kings, and the caste system in India / L.K. Mahapatra -- Shamanism as a profession / R.O. Manning -- Religion and h...
Tibetan oracles / Prince Peter of Greece & Denmark -- Breaking ties with deceased spouse / Paul C. Rosenblatt, R. Patricia Walsh, & Douglas A. Jackson -- The spirit "rides" or the spirit "comes": possession in a north indian village / Susan S. Wadley -- The Shamanistic element in Taiwanese folk reli...
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The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed by Aldine, c1976.
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c1976.
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The realm of the extra-human : agents and audiences / editor, Agehananda Bharati.
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World anthropology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from: N291/137.
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c1976.
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T0179009
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9027977496
9780202900261 (Aldine)
0202900266 (Aldine)
9789027977496
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291
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991014513599702626
