(Download) Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
☆ Sidney M Greenfield ☆
| #1453246 in Books | Left Coast Press | 2008-10-17 | 2008-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.85 | File Name: 1598743686 | 240 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Brad E.|Interestingl!|15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Compelling Ideas about Culture and Healing|By Helen S. Luey|I came to this book with no background in anthropology, but with interest in the effects of culture on health care delivery. I found the book fascinating and thought provoking. |“This engagingly written book is a must-read for anthropologists working and teaching in the fields of religion, anthropological theory, medical anthropology, and alternative medicine. It will also appeal to a wide audience outside of academe because it
“The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move….” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultu...
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