A deceased doctor healing the living in the enchanted world of the Brazilian Northeast

The theme of this paper is that people in Northeast Brazil refuse to let a good person who helped them during his (or her) lifetime die. They do this through several of the religious traditions practiced in the region. Beings, human and other, now in another plane of reality established in modern th...

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Authors: Greenfield, Sidney M. (Author) ; Cavalcante, Antônio Mourão (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Anthropological Association 2024
In: Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2024, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-14
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