From Shaman to scientist
Subtitle: essays on humanity's search for spirits
By: edited by James Houran.
Contributors: Houran, James, 1969-
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Parapsychology and science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Science in search of spirit / Annekatrin Puhle and Adrian Parker; title: How shamanism began : human evolution, dissociation, and anomalous experience / James McClenon; title: Spirits as human nature and the fundamental structures of consciousness / Michael Winkelman; title: Interactions with apparitions, ghosts, and revenants from ancient and medieval sources / Christa A. Tuczay; title: Historical profiles in poltergeist research / Peter Mulacz; title: American children's ghost stories : manipulation and mastery of a belief system / Sylvia Grider; title: Ghost hunting in the twenty first century / John Potts.