The Realm of the Extra-Human: Agents and Audiences

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Papers presented to the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Agehananda Bharati -- Neo-Hindu acculturation: an alternative to "instant chemical religion" / Robert J. Fornaro -- Lévi-Strauss in fairyland / Lorna McDougall -- Gods, kings, and the caste system in India / L.K. Mahapatra -- Shamanism as a profession / R.O. Manning -- Religion and human play / Edward Norbeck -- The akan stool polity: a political organization / Alfred Kofi Quarcoo -- Religious change in a northern Nigerian emirate / Frank A. Salamone -- Deified men and humanized gods: some folk bases of Hindu theology / A. Aiyappan -- Shamanism in central Asia / V. Basilov -- Shaman and priest in Yucatán pentecostalism / Felicitas D. Goodman -- Sense stimulation and ritual response: classifying the religious symbolism of the Persian and Yemenite Jews / Laurence D. Loeb -- Characteristics of sisala diviners / Eugene L. Mendonsa -- The goddess cult in the Hebrew-Jewish religion / Raphael Patai

Tibetan oracles / Prince Peter of Greece & Denmark -- Breaking ties with deceased spouse / Paul C. Rosenblatt, R. Patricia Walsh, & Douglas A. Jackson -- The spirit "rides" or the spirit "comes": possession in a north indian village / Susan S. Wadley -- The Shamanistic element in Taiwanese folk religion / Mitsuo Suzuki -- The study of Shamanism among the peoples of Siberia and the north / I.S. Vdovin -- Altered states of consciousness in northern Iroquoian ritual / Barbara W. Lex -- Shamanism, trance, hallucinogens, and psychical events: concepts, methods, and techniques for fieldwork among primitives / Joseph K. Long -- The cultural-historical origin of Shamanism / Horst Nachtigall -- The role of women in the male cults of the soromaja in New Guinea / Gottfried Oosterwal -- Certain aspects of the study of Siberian shamanism / L.P. Potapov -- Learning of psychodynamics, history, diagnosis management therapy by a Kali cult indigenous healer in Guiana / Philip Singer, Enrique Araneta, & Jamsie Naidoo

A Peruvian curandero's séance: power and balance / Douglas Sharon -- Esoteric rituals in Japanese traditional secret societies: a study of the death and rebirth motif / Tsuneo Ayabe -- Ritual, myth, and the murdered president / Dorothy Willner -- Pandharpur priesthood: its changing role, functions, and future / G.V. Dingre -- An anthropomorphic Shamanic musical instrument from the eighth to twelfth centuries A.D. / A. Kralovánsky -- Rousalia: the ritual worship of the dead / F.K. Litsas -- Personification of capes and rocks in the Helenic seas / Demetrios Loukatos -- Historical reality and Russian supernatural beings / Felix J. Oinas -- Some findings concerning the nomenclature and functions of certain Lacandon Mayan deities / Jaroslow T. Petryshyn -- The moon-mythical character of the God Yü-huang / John Tu Er-wei -- Was espingo (ispincu) of psychotropic and intoxicating importance for the Shamans in Peru? / S. Henry Wassen -- Epilogue / Samarendra Saraf