The realm of the extra-human. [Vol 2], ideas and actions / editor, Agehananda Bharati.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Agehananda Bharati, Swami, 1923-1991.

Conference Name:

International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)

Series:

World Anthropology 2

World Anthropology ; [Vol 2]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Congresses.

Religion.

Rites and ceremonies--Congresses.

Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages) : illustrations, charts, plates

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : distributed by Aldine, c1976.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction / BHARATI, AGEHANANDA

SECTION ONE

Spirit Possession Belief and Social Structure / BOURGUIGNON, ERIKA

Pastoral Images and Values in Southwest Donegal / CRAMER, EUGENIA S.

Ritual and Religions: An Ethologically Oriented Formal Analysis / KEHOE, ALICE Β.

The World/Nonworld Dichotomy / MAQUET, JACQUES

Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting / SCIOG, Ε. M.

SECTION TWO

Techniques of Control in the Esoteric Traditions of India and Tibet / BHARATI, AGEHANANDA

Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan / CANFIELD, ROBERT L.

New Approaches to Religious Ethnology, Especially in Austria: Main Theses / CLOSS, ALOIS

Religion and Ecology among the Great Basin Indians / HULTKRANTZ, ÅKE

Hindu Ritual Idiom: Cosmic Perspective and Basic Orientations / SARAF, SAMARENDRA

A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels / STABLEIN, WILLIAM

Shamanism and World View: The Case of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin / OHNUKI-TIERNEY, EMIKO

Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure / VOGT, EVON Z.

The Place of the Cactus Wine Ritual in the Papago Indian Ecosystem / WADDELL, JACK O.

SECTION THREE

The Violation of Taboo and Magical Power / MAKARIUS, LAURA

A Rjonga Curing Ritual: A Causal and Motivational Analysis / MORRIS, MARTHA B.

Synoptic Comments on Religion, Ethos, and Science in American Culture / JENNINGS, GEORGE J.

In Search of the Miraculous at Zuni / TEDLOCK, DENNIS

SECTION FOUR

Signs and Symbols in Israeli Electioneering / DESHEN, SHLOMO

Inward-Looking and Outward-Looking Symbols / HARRIS, GRACE

Crosses and Souls / IWAŃSKA, ALICJA

Dreams as Charismatic Significants: Their Bearing on the Rise of New Religious Movements / LANTERNARI, VITTORIO

SECTION FIVE

Moon and Reincarnation: Anthropogenesis as Imagined by the Surára and Pakidái Indians of Northwestern Brazil / BECHER, HANS

Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela / BOGLÁR, LAJOS

Krou Popular Traditions in the Ivory Coast / HOLAS, B.

Religious Practices of a Mysore Village / KADETOTAD, Ν. K.

A Multiple Burial Custom of Korea: Ch'obun / LEE, DU-HYUN

Permanence of Traditional Rites in the Tunisian Marriage Ceremony Today: An Interpretational Approach / LOUIS, A.

Aquatic Rites in the Danube Straits at the Iron Gates / IONESCU-MILCU, IOANA

Folk Medicine in a Settlement of the Szekely People in the Southern Banat Region of Yugoslavia / PENAVIN, OLGA

Belief and Cult in Human Prehistory / ROSIŃSKI, FRANCISZEK M.

Animal Sacrifices in the Balkans / STAHL, ANCA

The Mystery Play and the Carnival / STRATANOVICH, G. G.

Mythic Elements of Petroglyph Sites in the Upper Ohio Valley / SWAUGER, JAMES L.

Family Religion in Japan: the Ie and Its Religious Faith / TAKEDA, CHOSHU

Relics of Paganism among the Baltic Peoples after the Introduction of Christianity / JURGINIS, J. M.

Epilogue / SARAF, SAMARENDRA

Biographical Notes

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110805871

3110805871

OCLC:

979906728