Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India
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Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India
（Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 88）
Cambridge University Press, 1993
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Piers Vitebsky's study of religion and psychology in tribal India focuses upon a unique form of dialogue between the living and the dead which is conducted through the medium of a shaman in trance. The dead sometimes nurture their living descendants, yet at the same time they inflict upon them the very illnesses from which they themselves have died. Through intimate dialogue, the Sora use the occasion of death to explore their closest emotional attachments in all their ambivalence. Dr Vitebsky analyses the actors' words and relationships over several years and develops a typology of moods among the dead and kinds of memory among the living. In comparing Sora shamanism with the treatment of bereavement in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, he highlights a contrast in their assumptions which has far-reaching consequences for the social and professional scope of the two kinds of practice.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Sonum: The Continuation of Consciousness After Death: 1. Dialogues between the living and the dead
- 2.The Sora people
- 3. The formation of the Sora person
- 4. Interpreting and persuading the dead
- Part II. Responding to a New Death: 5. Transcription of a dialogue: the inquest on JAMANO
- 6. Redeeming the dead and protecting the living
- Part III. Operating the Calculus of All Previous Deaths: 7. Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons
- 8. States of mind among the dead and the living
- 9. Forgetting the dead
- 10. Dialogues with the self: Sora bereavement and the presuppositions of contemporary psychotherapy.
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