This second monograph deals with spirituality – with its psychological roots, its symbolic elaboration and performance.  Traditions of shamanism, mediumship, and possession in Borneo are rich, complex, and diverse.  The essays, which compromise this volume, document and analyze a much wider range of ethnographic instances than has previously been assembled.  Together they show both the enduring vitality of Bornean spirituality as practice, belief, and role and the evolving development of these in the present world

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The editor, Robert L. Winzler, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, Anthropology) is Professor of Anthropology, the University of Nevada, Reno.  He has done fieldwork in Kelantan, in peninsular Malaysia, as well as in Sarawak, on various topics and is the author of a forthcoming book on latah in Malaya, Borneo Java.