Spirits with Scalpels : The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil

Name: Spirits with Scalpels
Brand: Left Coast Press Inc
SKU: 9781598743678
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ISBN: 9781598743678

by Sidney M Greenfield

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1598743678

ISBN-13 9781598743678

Publisher Left Coast Press Inc

Imprint Left Coast Press Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 15th, 2008

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 600 grams

Product Classification: Anthropology

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Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious practitioners in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation.

“The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move….” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. This engrossing and provocative book will put students and scholars alike on the edge of their seats.

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