The mind possessed : the cognition of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition / Emma Cohen.

Author/creator Cohen, Emma, 1979-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description1 online resource (ix, 241 p.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1669532
Subjects

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index.
LanguageThis edition in English.

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