Format: Hardback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780822947073
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Description:
Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd.