Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil by Sidney M. Greenfield

Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil

Sidney M. Greenfield

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"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 ...

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