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Spirits with Scalpels

The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil

by Sidney M. Greenfield

An anthropologist's account of Brazilian Spiritist healing, including mediums who perform 'spirit surgery', set within the history of Kardecism and Afro-Brazilian religion in Brazil.

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