| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
José Carlos Ribeiro : an introduction to spiritist therapy -- Edson Queiroz : spirit surgeries in Recife -- Antonio de Oliveira rios in Palmelo -- Mauricio Maglhães in Campo Grande -- Not all patients are cured : Kardecism's approach to death and dying -- The disobsession : another form of spiritist treatment -- Healing and the competition for religious converts -- Religion and religious diversity in the context of Brazilian history -- Pilgrimage and healing in "popular" catholicism -- Healing by the spirits in the African derived traditions -- Umbanda -- Evangelicals and healing by the Holy Ghost -- Healing in the competitive religious marketplace -- Healing by spirits and science -- Science as a cultural process -- Communication, information flow, and a new paradigm -- Ritual, altered states of consciousness and -- Culturalbiological healing -- Culturalbiology and the marketplace of religion in Brazil. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnobiology -- Brazil.
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Ethnobiology. |
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Brazil. |
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Healing -- Brazil.
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Healing. |
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Traditional medicine -- Brazil.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Spirit possession -- Brazil.
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Spirit possession. |
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Brazil -- Religious life and customs.
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Brazil -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Spiritual Therapies. |
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Religion. |
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Surgical Procedures, Operative. |
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Brazil. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greenfield, Sidney M. Spirits with scalpels. Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008038167 |
| ISBN |
9781598747409 (electronic book) |
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1598747401 (electronic book) |
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131541984X |
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9781315419848 |
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9781598743678 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781598743685 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1598743678 |
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1598743686 |
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