TY - BOOK AU - AIYAPPAN,A. AU - ARANETA,ENRIQUE AU - AYABE,TSUNEO AU - BASILOV,V. AU - BHARATI,AGEHANANDA AU - Bharati,Agrhananda AU - DINGRE,G.V. AU - FORNARO,ROBERT J. AU - GOODMAN,FELICITAS D. AU - JACKSON,DOUGLAS A. AU - KRALOVÁNSZKY,A. AU - LEX,BARBARA W. AU - LITSAS,F.K. AU - LOEB,LAURENCE D. AU - LONG,JOSEPH K. AU - LOUKATOS,DEMETRIOS AU - MAHAPATRA,L.K. AU - MANNING,R.O. AU - MENDONSA,EUGENE L. AU - McDOUGALL,LORNA AU - NACHTIGALL,HORST AU - NAIDOO,JAMSIE AU - NORBECK,EDWARD AU - OINAS,FELIX J. AU - OOSTERWAL,GOTTFRIED AU - PATAI,RAPHAEL AU - PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK AU - PETRYSHYN,JAROSLAW THEODORE AU - POTAPOV,L.P. AU - QUARCOO,ALFRED KOFI AU - ROSENBLATT,PAUL C. AU - SALAMONE,FRANK A. AU - SARAF,SAMARENDRA AU - SHARON,DOUGLAS AU - SINGER,PHILIP AU - SUZUKI,MITSUO AU - TU ER-WEI,JOHN AU - VDOVIN,I.S. AU - WADLEY,SUSAN S. AU - WALSH,R.PATRICIA AU - WASSÉN,S.HENRY AU - WILLNER,DOROTHY TI - The Realm of the Extra-Human. T2 - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series SN - 9789027977496 AV - BL21 U1 - 291 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Religion KW - Congresses KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Shamanism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805840 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110805840 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110805840/original ER -