The Realm of the Extra-Human. / [Vol 2], : Ideas and Actions / / ed. by Agehanada Bharati.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series ; [Vol 2]
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Physical Description:1 online resource (521 p.) :; Num. figs. and 18 plates
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Other title:I-XII --
Introduction --
SECTION ONE --
Spirit Possession Belief and Social Structure --
Pastoral Images and Values in Southwest Donegal --
Ritual and Religions: An Ethologically Oriented Formal Analysis --
The World/Nonworld Dichotomy --
Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting --
SECTION TWO --
Techniques of Control in the Esoteric Traditions of India and Tibet --
Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan --
New Approaches to Religious Ethnology, Especially in Austria: Main Theses --
Religion and Ecology among the Great Basin Indians --
Hindu Ritual Idiom: Cosmic Perspective and Basic Orientations --
A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels --
Shamanism and World View: The Case of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin --
Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure --
The Place of the Cactus Wine Ritual in the Papago Indian Ecosystem --
SECTION THREE --
The Violation of Taboo and Magical Power --
A Rjonga Curing Ritual: A Causal and Motivational Analysis --
Synoptic Comments on Religion, Ethos, and Science in American Culture --
In Search of the Miraculous at Zuni --
SECTION FOUR --
Signs and Symbols in Israeli Electioneering --
Inward-Looking and Outward-Looking Symbols --
Crosses and Souls --
Dreams as Charismatic Significants: Their Bearing on the Rise of New Religious Movements --
SECTION FIVE --
Moon and Reincarnation: Anthropogenesis as Imagined by the Surára and Pakidái Indians of Northwestern Brazil --
Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela --
Krou Popular Traditions in the Ivory Coast --
Religious Practices of a Mysore Village --
A Multiple Burial Custom of Korea: Ch'obun --
Permanence of Traditional Rites in the Tunisian Marriage Ceremony Today: An Interpretational Approach --
Aquatic Rites in the Danube Straits at the Iron Gates --
Folk Medicine in a Settlement of the Szekely People in the Southern Banat Region of Yugoslavia --
Belief and Cult in Human Prehistory --
Animal Sacrifices in the Balkans --
The Mystery Play and the Carnival --
Mythic Elements of Petroglyph Sites in the Upper Ohio Valley --
Family Religion in Japan: the Ie and Its Religious Faith --
Relics of Paganism among the Baltic Peoples after the Introduction of Christianity --
Epilogue --
Biographical Notes --
Index of Names --
Index of Subjects
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110805871
9783110637922
DOI:10.1515/9783110805871
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Agehanada Bharati.