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The Realm of the Extra-Human - [Vol 2]: The Realm of the Extra-Human. Vol.2 - Ideas and Actions

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Frontmatter -- Introduction / BHARATI, AGEHANANDA -- SECTION ONE -- Spirit Possession Belief and Social Structure / BOURGUIGNON, ERIKA -- Pastoral Images and Values in Southwest Donegal / CRAMER, EUGENIA S. -- Ritual and Religions: An Ethologically Oriented Formal Analysis / KEHOE, ALICE ¿. -- The World/Nonworld Dichotomy / MAQUET, JACQUES -- Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting / SCIOG, ¿. M. -- SECTION TWO -- Techniques of Control in the Esoteric Traditions of India and Tibet / BHARATI, AGEHANANDA -- Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan / CANFIELD, ROBERT L. -- New Approaches to Religious Ethnology, Especially in Austria: Main Theses / CLOSS, ALOIS -- Religion and Ecology among the Great Basin Indians / HULTKRANTZ, ÅKE -- Hindu Ritual Idiom: Cosmic Perspective and Basic Orientations / SARAF, SAMARENDRA -- A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pujas as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels / STABLEIN, WILLIAM -- Shamanism and World View: The Case of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin / OHNUKI-TIERNEY, EMIKO -- Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure / VOGT, EVON Z. -- The Place of the Cactus Wine Ritual in the Papago Indian Ecosystem / WADDELL, JACK O. -- SECTION THREE -- The Violation of Taboo and Magical Power / MAKARIUS, LAURA -- A Rjonga Curing Ritual: A Causal and Motivational Analysis / MORRIS, MARTHA B. -- Synoptic Comments on Religion, Ethos, and Science in American Culture / JENNINGS, GEORGE J. -- In Search of the Miraculous at Zuni / TEDLOCK, DENNIS -- SECTION FOUR -- Signs and Symbols in Israeli Electioneering / DESHEN, SHLOMO -- Inward-Looking and Outward-Looking Symbols / HARRIS, GRACE -- Crosses and Souls / IWANSKA, ALICJA -- Dreams as Charismatic Significants: Their Bearing on the Rise of New Religious Movements / LANTERNARI, VITTORIO -- SECTION FIVE -- Moon and Reincarnation: Anthropogenesis as Imagined by the Surára and Pakidái Indians of Northwestern Brazil / BECHER, HANS -- Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela / BOGLÁR, LAJOS -- Krou Popular Traditions in the Ivory Coast / HOLAS, B. -- Religious Practices of a Mysore Village / KADETOTAD, ¿. K. -- A Multiple Burial Custom of Korea: Ch'obun / LEE, DU-HYUN -- Permanence of Traditional Rites in the Tunisian Marriage Ceremony Today: An Interpretational Approach / LOUIS, A. -- Aquatic Rites in the Danube Straits at the Iron Gates / IONESCU-MILCU, IOANA -- Folk Medicine in a Settlement of the Szekely People in the Southern Banat Region of Yugoslavia / PENAVIN, OLGA -- Belief and Cult in Human Prehistory / ROSINSKI, FRANCISZEK M. -- Animal Sacrifices in the Balkans / STAHL, ANCA -- The Mystery Play and the Carnival / STRATANOVICH, G. G. -- Mythic Elements of Petroglyph Sites in the Upper Ohio Valley / SWAUGER, JAMES L. -- Family Religion in Japan: the Ie and Its Religious Faith / TAKEDA, CHOSHU -- Relics of Paganism among the Baltic Peoples after the Introduction of Christianity / JURGINIS, J. M. -- Epilogue / SARAF, SAMARENDRA -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects


Product details

Assisted by Agehanad Bharati (Editor), Agehanada Bharati (Editor), Agehananda Bharati (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.1976
 
EAN 9789027977595
ISBN 978-90-279-7759-5
No. of pages 521
Dimensions 155 mm x 44 mm x 230 mm
Weight 1054 g
Illustrations Num. figs. and 18 plates
Sets The Realm of the Extra-Human
The Realm of the Extra-Human
Series World Anthropology
Bharati, Agehanada: The Realm of the Extra-Human
World Anthropology
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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