Dimitris Xygalatas

The Burning Saints

Cognition and Culture in the Fire-Walking Rituals of the Anastenaria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on long-term fieldwork, 'The Burning Saints' traces the historical development and sociocultural context of the Greek fire-walking rituals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781845539764
• ISBN-10: 1845539761
• Artikelnr.: 36584141

Autorenporträt

Xygalatas, Dimitris

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Tradition in the Making 3. The Ethnographic Setting 4.
Fire-walking in Agia Eleni 5. Knowledge and Revelation Among the
Anastenaria 6. Ritual and Mind 7. Costly Rituals 8. Arousal, Emotion, and
Motivation 9. The Physiology of High-Arousal Rituals 10. Putting it all
Together Bibliography

Rezensionen

"In conclusion, Xygalatas offers the most well-presented, defended, and empirically backed, overview of "extreme rituals" available. His attention to historical, anthropological, and scientific detail will hopefully become a prototype for future publications and research programmes in the field. Throughout its chapters the book offers valuable new insight to specialists of similar historical, anthropological, cognitive, and physiological topics. The book ultimately is a contribution to many fields but above all else, it is a contribution to interdisciplinary and scientific approaches to complex phenomena."

Justin E. Lane, Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Journal of Cognitive Historiography