Communicating with the Spirits / edited by Éva Pócs and Gábor Klaniczay.

Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical arche...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Pócs, Éva (Editor), Klaniczay, Gábor (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2005.
Series:Demons, spirits, witches ; v. 1.
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Summary:Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation -- trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
ISBN:142371749X
9781423717492
9789637326134
9637326138
6155053561
9786155053566
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.