Central European U. Press
Titles appearing in Art Book News Annual — January 2006
Communicating with the spirits.
Ed. by Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs. (Demons, spirits, witches; v.1)
Central European U. Press, ©2005 295 p. $39.95 BF1584
963-7326-13-8
This is the first of three volumes based on the topics of the interdisciplinary conference held in Budapest on demons, spirits and witches. Historians, ethnologists and folklorists from four continents present their research on the forms and techniques of communication with representatives from other worlds and the basic religious and ethnological concepts used for interpreting this experience. The contributors also analyze and compare the historical archetypes of trance prophecy, divination and shamanism. Distributed by Books International. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
