Emma Cohen

The Mind Possessed

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780199767441
• ISBN-10: 0199767440
• Artikelnr.: 32122654

Autorenporträt

Emma Cohen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translated Sources
1. Introducing Possession
2. Historical and Ethnographic Setting
3. The Research Community
4. Describing, Interpreting, and Explaining Spirit Possession
5. Medicalist, Physiological, and Sociological Explanations
6. Spirits as Concepts
7. Observing Possession
8. The Social Relevance of Spirits
9. Explaining Distributions of Spirit Concepts and Spirit Possession
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
References
Index