The Healing Machi

The Healing MachiThis book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a real Machi, a person who can both see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques, and experience ritual trance to make spirits from the past present.

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Ruehl Politeia 1871: Nietzsche contra Wagner on the Greek State

consistent monitoring over vast areas is required to provide sufficient warning of population outbreaks

their role in technology and biology

Concerns from the above traditions as well as Christianity

it also enumerates the obverse and reverse dies identified for each of the 44 recorded types

Autodistribution

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Margo Veillon

Jivanmukti in Transformation examines the development and transformation of the concept of jivanmukti from the Upanisads to the modern era

Hong Kong Internment

Offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work