The Realm of the Extra-Human. / [Vol 1], : Agents and Audiences / / ed. by Agrhananda Bharati.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: AIYAPPAN, A.,; ARANETA, ENRIQUE,; AYABE, TSUNEO,; BASILOV, V.,; BHARATI, AGEHANANDA,; DINGRE, G. V.,; FORNARO, ROBERT J.,; GOODMAN, FELICITAS D.,; JACKSON, DOUGLAS A.,; KRALOVÁNSZKY, A.,; LEX, BARBARA W.,; LITSAS, F. K.,; LOEB, LAURENCE D.,; LONG, JOSEPH K.,; LOUKATOS, DEMETRIOS,; MAHAPATRA, L. K.,; MANNING, R. O.,; MENDONSA, EUGENE L.,; McDOUGALL, LORNA,; NACHTIGALL, HORST,; NAIDOO, JAMSIE,; NORBECK, EDWARD,; OINAS, FELIX J.,; OOSTERWAL, GOTTFRIED,; PATAI, RAPHAEL,; PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK,,; PETRYSHYN, JAROSLAW THEODORE,; POTAPOV, L. P.,; QUARCOO, ALFRED KOFI,; ROSENBLATT, PAUL C.,; SALAMONE, FRANK A.,; SARAF, SAMARENDRA,; SHARON, DOUGLAS,; SINGER, PHILIP,; SUZUKI, MITSUO,; TU ER-WEI, JOHN,; VDOVIN, I. S.,; WADLEY, SUSAN S.,; WALSH, R. PATRICIA,; WASSÉN, S. HENRY,; WILLNER, DOROTHY,
• HerausgeberIn: Bharati, Agrhananda,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series ; [Vol 1]
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (556 p.) :; 20 plates. Num. tabs.
• Other title: I-XII --; Introduction --; SECTION ONE --; Neo-Hindu Acculturation: An Alternative to "Instant Chemical Religion" --; Lévi-Strauss in Fairyland --; Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India --; Shamanism as a Profession --; Religion and Human Play --; The Akan Stool Polity: A Political Organization --; Religious Change in a Northern Nigerian Emirate --; SECTION TWO --; Deified Men and Humanized Gods: Some Folk Bases of Hindu Theology --; Shamanism in Central Asia --; Shaman and Priest in Yucatán Pentecostalism --; Sense Stimulation and Ritual Response: Classifying the Religious Symbolism of the Persian and Yemenite Jews --; Characteristics of Sisala Diviners --; The Goddess Cult in the Hebrew-Jewish Religion --; Tibetan Oracles --; Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse --; The Spirit "Rides" or the Spirit "Comes": Possession in a North Indian Village --; The Shamanistic Element in Taiwanese Folk Religion --; The Study of Shamanism among the Peoples of Siberia and the North --; SECTION THREE --; Altered States of Consciousness in Northern Iroquoian Ritual --; Shamanism, Trance, Hallucinogens, and Psychical Events: Concepts, Methods, and Techniques for Fieldwork among Primitives --; The Culture-Historical Origin of Shamanism --; The Role of Women in the Male Cults of the Soromaja in New Guinea --; Certain Aspects of the Study of Siberian Shamanism --; Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana --; A Peruvian Curandero's Séance: Power and Balance --; SECTION FOUR --; Esoteric Rituals in Japanese Traditional Secret Societies: A Study of the Death and Rebirth Motif --; Ritual, Myth, and the Murdered President --; SECTION FIVE --; Pandharpur Priesthood: Its Changing Role, Functions, and Future --; An Anthropomorphic Shamanic Musical Instrument from the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries A.D. --; Rousalia: The Ritual Worship of the Dead --; Personifications of Capes and Rocks in the Hellenic Seas --; Historical Reality and Russian Supernatural Beings --; Some Findings Concerning the Nomenclature and Functions of Certain Lacandon Mayan Deities --; The Moon-Mythical Character of the God Yü-huang --; Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru? --; Epilogue --; Biographical Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110805840; 9783110637922
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110805840
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Agrhananda Bharati.