The mind possessed : the cognition of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition / Emma Cohen.
| Author/creator |
Cohen, Emma, 1979- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | ix, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Contents | Introducing possession -- Historical and ethnographic setting -- The research community -- Describing, interpreting, and explaining spirit possession -- Medicalist, physiological, and sociological explanations -- Spirits as concepts -- Observing possession -- The social relevance of spirits -- Explaining distributions of spirit concepts and spirit possession. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006032578 |
| ISBN | 9780195323351 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195323351 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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