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Books narrated by Marcel Eilers

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  • Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship

    Ethnographic Inquiries into New Communities of Practice and Enskilment

    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally interconnected world. The increased mobility of people, things, signs, and symbols that shape and reshape trance practices and spiritual experiences has ... Read more

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  • The investor family and the family office

    Assuming the heritage management role is more than a responsible attitude towards financial capital, it is an attitude in recognition of family culture and values. For those who have before them the challenge and opportunity to pass on this legacy to future generations, the path can certainly be traced very successfully. The purpose of this book is to clarify the principles and practices that ... Read more

    $15.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Psychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas

    History, Traditions, and Indigenous Voices

    An essential new collection that explores the cultural, medicinal, and spiritual traditions of marijuana, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and other psychedelics—informed by both Western and Indigenous knowledgePsychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas is a collection of 23 psychedelic-specific articles, written by historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and those from other fields in the humanities. ... Read more

    $54.78 NZD

  • Creativity/Anthropology

    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Contributors include Barbara A. Babcock, Edward M. Bruner, James W. ... Read more

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  • Demystifying Shamans and Their World

    A Multidisciplinary Study

    Shamanism can be described as a group of techniques by which its practitioners enter the "spirit world," purportedly obtaining information that is used to help and to heal members of their social group. Despite a resurgence of interest in shamanism and shamanic states of consciousness, these phenomena are neither well-defined nor sufficiently understood. This multi-disciplinary study draws on the ... Read more

    $48.00 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Read more

    $66.62 NZD

  • Initiated by the Spirits

    Healing the Ills of Modernity through Shamanism, Psychedelics and the Power

    Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led by a local shaman. There, to everyone's great surprise, Randy was initiated by discarnate entities, who instructed him and gave him healing powers. In this unique book, Randy tells his story to ... Read more

    $19.58 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death, Mourning, and Burial

    A Cross-Cultural Reader

    Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben ...
    The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalismFew subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling Death, Mourning, and Burial offers cross-cultural readings that ... Read more

    $107.99 NZD

  • Anthropology and Psychic Research

    Series series Psychic Exploration
    Very little cross-fertilization of ideas, concepts, or techniques has developed between the fields of anthropology and psychic research. This essay, chapter 11 of Psychic Exploration, reviews several firsthand reports of field observations that offer encouraging anecdotal support for the existence of psi. Also reviewed are the statistically-significant card testing experiments by Foster with ... Read more

    $3.51 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and Psychedelics

    Uncovering Invisible Voices

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge.Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a ... Read more

    $27.93 NZD

  • Electric Santería

    Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, ... Read more

    $68.58 NZD

  • Expanding Mindscapes

    A Global History of Psychedelics

    Edited by Erika Dyck, Chris Elcock ...
    The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors ... Read more

    $146.99 NZD