General Information

Author/Creator

Lewis, Ioan Myrddin, 1930-2014.

Language

English.

Published

[Harmondsworth, Eng.] : Penguin Books, [c1971], 1978.

Physical Description

223 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Series

Pelican anthropology library

Subjects

Subject

Shamanism.

Religion and sociology

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

[by] I. M. Lewis.

Series

Pelican anthropology library

Content

Towards a sociology of ecstasy -- Trance and possession -- Affliction and its apotheosis -- Strategies of mystical attack. Protest and its containment -- Possession and public morality. I. Ancestor cults -- Possession and public morality. II. Other cosmological systems -- Possession and psychiatry.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 430 - Donation of Zsuzsa Horváth

ISBN

0140212779

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library		299./4 LEW		OSA Repository	-

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