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Mind over Mind
The Anthropology and Psychology of Spirit Possession
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2004
Summary
Mind Over Mind explores the phenomenon of spirit possession from both anthropological and psychological perspectives. Spirit possession is ritually important in many cultures from India to Brazil to Madagascar, but has tended to be narrowly regarded from modern American and European perspectives as a psychopathological problem of multiple personality disorder. This book proposes an integration of anthropological and psychological approaches, concluding with a new analytical framework for understanding spirit possession and resolving the controversy surrounding the "reality" of possession. The issues raised are thus essential to both the anthropology of religion and the psychology of altered states of consciousness. At the same time, Mind over Mind confronts the most challenging philosophical issues of human consciousness and human identity, which can not be properly formulated without the insights of social and cultural anthropology. At the most general level, this study argues for the unequivocal importance of an interdisciplinary approach to spirit possession and for the integral significance of anthropology for the other human sciences.
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Edition
1/2004
Copyright Year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2677-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-46678-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
140
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1 Unanswered Questions and Unbridgeable Chasms No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 Culture as against “Culture” No access Pages 17 - 36
Chapter 3 The Spirits Are Willing No access Pages 37 - 56
Chapter 4 “Not for Us to Judge” No access Pages 57 - 78
Chapter 5 Consciousness and Dissociation: Paradigms Lost No access Pages 79 - 92
Chapter 6 Dissociative Disorders and the Human Mind No access Pages 93 - 108
Chapter 7 Dissociation and Spirit Possession No access Pages 109 - 126
