Ritual States of Consciousness: A Way of Accounting for Anomalies in the Observation and Explanation of Spirit Possession
Anthropology of Consciousness December 1, 1995 Wallace W. Zane
Confusion prevails in the anthropological literature concerning the nature of spirit possession belief and its effects. In large, this is due to the difficulty in differentiating between culture‐specific categories of altered states of consciousness and reconciling these to analytical categories. Theories of spirit possession tend either toward description of the culture context without...