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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BECHER, HANS,; BHARATI, AGEHANANDA,; BOGLÁR, LAJOS,; BOURGUIGNON, ERIKA,; CANFIELD, ROBERT L.,; CLOSS, ALOIS,; CRAMER, EUGENIA S.,; DESHEN, SHLOMO,; HARRIS, GRACE,; HOLAS, B.,; HULTKRANTZ, ÅKE,; IONESCU-MILCU, IOANA,; IWAŃSKA, ALICJA,; JENNINGS, GEORGE J.,; JURGINIS, J. M.,; KADETOTAD, Ν. K.,; KEHOE, ALICE Β.,; LANTERNARI, VITTORIO,; LEE, DU-HYUN,; LOUIS, A.,; MAKARIUS, LAURA,; MAQUET, JACQUES,; MORRIS, MARTHA B.,; OHNUKI-TIERNEY, EMIKO,; PENAVIN, OLGA,; ROSIŃSKI, FRANCISZEK M.,; SARAF, SAMARENDRA,; SCIOG, Ε. M.,; STABLEIN, WILLIAM,; STAHL, ANCA,; STRATANOVICH, G. G.,; SWAUGER, JAMES L.,; TAKEDA, CHOSHU,; TEDLOCK, DENNIS,; VOGT, EVON Z.,; WADDELL, JACK O.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bharati, Agehanada,
• 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 2]
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (521 p.) :; Num. figs. and 18 plates

Table of Contents

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