1. To Talk with the Dead.
2. The Menu of Humanoid Possibilities.
3. Ghosts in the Past.
4. Dimensions of Mediumship.
5. Why the Living Dead are Popular.
6. The Ghosts of Childhood.
7. Christian Churches vs. Spiritists.
8. Spiritist Social Life.
9. New Age Elves and Fairies.
10. The Séance as Theater.
11. Failed Conversations with the Dead.
12. The Last Word.
Robert Anderson is a physician-anthropologist who specializes in medical anthropology, including alternative medicine and healing, shamanism, and religion. He is a Medical Doctor (MD) who graduated from the University of Ciudad Juarez as well as a full Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Deparment of Sociology and Anthropology at Mills College, and his credentials are impressive with both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Anderson's interests in anthropology have always centered on issues of bipedalism--including back pain, bonesetting, and birthing--as well as medical anthropology and alternative medicine. While teaching in 1998 at the University of Iceland as a visiting Fulbright lecturer, Dr. Anderson was also researching alternative medicine. He discovered that in the North Atlantic, alternative medicine frequently included treatment by the ghosts of deceased doctors, which resulted in his fascinating fieldwork on religious beliefs and practices in contemporary Iceland that includes the paranormal. Over the years, he has served as Editor or as a member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including Medical Anthropology and Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, as well as the Director of Research at the San Francisco Spine Institute at Seton Medical Center. His published books include ALTERNATIVE AND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE IN ICELAND: THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LOW BACK PAIN (2000), and MAGIC, SCIENCE, AND HEALTH: THE AIMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1996).
1. To Talk with the Dead. 2. The Menu of Humanoid Possibilities. 3. Ghosts in the Past. 4. Dimensions of Mediumship. 5. Why the Living Dead are Popular. 6. The Ghosts of Childhood. 7. Christian Churches vs. Spiritists. 8. Spiritist Social Life. 9. New Age Elves and Fairies. 10. The Seance as Theater. 11. Failed Conversations with the Dead. 12. The Last Word.
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