The Gift of Life - Bonnie Glass-Coffin
The Gift of Life - Bonnie Glass-Coffin
- Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
AutorzyBonnie Glass-Coffin
EAN: 9780826318930
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886GGR03527KS
Rok wydania
1998
Elementy
280
Oprawa
Miekka
Format
15.2x22.9cm
Język
angielski

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14 dni na łatwy zwrot

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886GGR03527KS
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9780826318930
Rok wydania
1998
Elementy
280
Oprawa
Miekka
Format
15.2x22.9cm
Język
angielski
Autorzy
Bonnie Glass-Coffin

In this uniquely personal account of the lives and healing arts of female shamans in northern Peru, the author alternates diaristic writings about her own experiences with ethnographic description. Her analytical essays explore the concepts of sorcery, shamanism, and witchcraft, case studies of Peruvian women and their ritual healing techniques, the healers' religious and symbolic space, and the healing attributes unique to women. They alternate with chapters in which Glass-Coffin describes her introduction to Peru as a high school student, the traditional roles she adopted in her host family, the crisis that rocked her identity, her first ritual contact with a female healer, and her own tumultuous but ultimately rewarding healing journey under two female shamans. Male shamans, she concludes, sally forth into the spirit world to do individual combat with the sources of spiritual illness, whereas female shamans try to involve their patients more directly in their own healing.
EAN: 9780826318930
EAN: 9780826318930
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