Sidney M Greenfield: 1 book
Spirits with Scalpels
The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
“The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move….” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography...
