Includes bibliographical references (p. 239) and index.
Contents:
Science in search of spirit / Annekatrin Puhle and Adrian Parker -- How shamanism began : human evolution, dissociation, and anomalous experience / James McClenon -- Spirits as human nature and the fundamental structures of consciousness / Michael Winkelman -- Interactions with apparitions, ghosts, and revenants in ancient and medieval sources / Christa A. Tuczay -- Historical profiles in poltergeist research / Peter Mulacz -- American children's ghost stories : manipulation and mastery of a belief system / Sylvia Grider -- Ghost hunting in the twenty-first century / John Potts.
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