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Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age - Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Sera-Shriar, Efram (Lecturer in Modern History)
Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age - Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Sera-Shriar, Efram (Lecturer in Modern History)
For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of “primitive cultures” that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms.
272 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 14, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780822947073 |
| Publishers | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 239 × 160 × 26 mm · 524 g |
| Language | English |