Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield.
"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move ..." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a rivetin...
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