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Manifesting Spirits - An Anthropological Study of Mediumship and the Paranormal (Paperback)
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Manifesting Spirits - An Anthropological Study of Mediumship and the Paranormal (Paperback)
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An exploration of contemporary trance and physical mediumship at a
private spiritualist home-circle called the Bristol Spirit Lodge.
Located in a garden on the outskirts of Bristol, the Lodge is a
wooden shed specially constructed for the purposes of mediumship
development and spirit communication. Through a combination of
ethnographic observations in séances – including his own
experiences of mediumship development – and interviews with
spirits and their mediums, Hunter delves into a sub-urban world of
trance states, ectoplasm, spirit lights and discarnate entities.
Issues relating to altered states of consciousness, personhood,
performance and the efficacy of ritual are examined in order to
make sense of the processes by which spirits become manifest in
social reality.  A large part of Manifesting
Spirits is given over to a broader discussion of
anthropology's evolving attitudes toward the 'paranormal' as a
component of the 'life-worlds' of many people across the globe, and
argues for the development of a non-reductive anthropological
approach to the paranormal, and mediumship in particular. This
emerging framework – referred to as 'ontological flooding' does
not attempt to explain away the existence of spirits in terms of
functional, cognitive or pathological theories (as most mainstream
theorists tend to do), but rather embraces a processual perspective
that emphasises complexity and multiple interconnected processes
underlying spirit possession performances and experiences.
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