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Some spirits heal, others only dance : a journey into human selfhood in an African village
- Title
- Some spirits heal, others only dance : a journey into human selfhood in an African village / Roy Willis.
- Author
- Willis, Roy G.
- Publication
- Oxford, England ; New York : Berg, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BL65.M4 W544 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of 'spirit' tell us about the nature of human selfhood? To investigate these poorly understood matters, veteran anthropologist, neo-shaman and paranormal healer Roy Willis spent five months in a remote part of northern Zambia exploring human consciousness in a fascinating and sometimes terrifying series of adventures.
- Subject
- Lungu (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Spiritual healing and spiritualism
- Self
- Mental healing
- Lungu (African people) > Religion
- Lungu (African people) > Medicine
- Shamanism > Zambia
- Ego (Psychology)
- Ego
- Medicine, African Traditional
- Mental Healing
- Shamanism
- Mental healing
- Self
- Spiritual healing and spiritualism
- Geistheilung
- Volksgeneeskunde
- Magie
- Spiritual healing and spiritualism > Africa
- Spiritual healing and spiritualism > Zambia
- Zambia
- Sambia
- Sambia
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-214) and index.
- Contents
- Research assistance -- Homeland and familihood -- Managing time and space -- making ethnography -- Sorcery attack -- Dreaming medicine -- Dispossession -- Afterthoughts: selfhood in global village.
- ISBN
- 1859732836
- 9781859732830
- 1859732887
- 9781859732885
- OCLC
- ocm41999841
- 41999841
- SCSB-867148
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library