Sidney Greenfield

Dados Biográficos

ID194
NOMESidney Greenfield
PRENOMESSidney
SOBRENOMEGreenfield
ASSINATURAGREENFIELD S
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ORCID0000-0001-6425-7989
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES111
TOTAL COMO AUTOR58
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1960
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H5

  • A deceased doctor healing the living in the enchanted world of the Brazilian Northeast

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Antônio Mourão CavalcanteARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2024

    The theme of this paper is that people in Northeast Brazil refuse to let a good person who helped them during his (or her) lifetime die. They do this through several of the religious traditions practiced in the region. Beings, human and other, now in another plane of reality established in modern thinking, cross the conceptual divide and return through mediums or other intermediaries to heal the living. We examine two religious traditions, “folk”…

  • A Faith-based Mental Health and Development Project for Slum Dwellers in Brazil

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLENAPA Bulletin2010Citada por: 2Referências: 3

    This article describes a mental health and development program being carried out under the direction of a Comboni Missionary who is an ordained Roman Catholic priest from Italy and a medical doctor presently completing a Ph.D. in psychiatry in Brazil. It is based on a theoretical framework that integrates the cultural and religious backgrounds of migrants coming into the slums of Brazilian cities with a form of group therapy based on the assumpti…

  • Our Science is Better than Yours

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2009Referências: 3

    This article examines whether a group of Brazilian Kardecist-Spiritists are using the symbols of medicine and science to gain respectability and to better promote their beliefs and ritual activities or whether they are using the view of the world proposed by their founder to forge a new paradigm to replace science, as we know it. Their therapeutic practices, which range from the performance of surgeries without anesthesia and antisepsis to "telep…

  • Pilgrimage and Patronage in Brazil

    Sidney Greenfield, Sidney M Greenfield et al.ARTICLELuso-Brazilian Review2006

    Este artigo descreve e analisa uma romaria ao santuário de São Francisco das Chagas, no município de Canindé (Ceará), no nordeste brasileiro. Ele foi escrito em resposta a um comentário de Daniel Gross feito há três décadas, descrevendo a ausência da romaria na literatura etnográfica. Baseado em estudo de campo realizado em fins dos anos oitenta e início dos anos noventa, juntamente com recentes visitas relativas e dados coletados em nossos estud…

  • Trance States and Accessing Implicit Memories

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLECurrent Sociology2005Referências: 7

    This article explores the relationship between efforts by members of diverse social groups to regain, reconstruct or remember disappearing cultural pasts - in which life was believed to have been better and more meaningful - and the distinctive forms taken in the ritual and other practices of so many of today's religions. The author proposes that religious rituals that enable participants to enter into trance, or other altered states of conscious…

  • Treating the Sick with a Morality Play

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLESocial Analysis2004

  • From Fanatics to Folk

    Sidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2004

  • Race, Culture, and an Anthropological Disconnect Between Teaching and Practice

    Sidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEReviews in Anthropology2004Referências: 2

    In the Preface to the well-illustrated and attractive-looking Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religion, David Levinson, series editor for publisher Berkshire Reference Works, a divisio

  • Syncretic Processes and the Definition of New Religions

    Sidney Greenfield, André Droogers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2003Citada por: 1Referências: 19

    This paper presents a model that we suggest makes it possible to identify, bound, and set off new religions. We begin from the perspective of the scholar, which we extend to include the discourses of those written about and the relationship between the two. After setting out some epistemological issues related to the study of science and arguing that in contrast with the natural sciences where a single paradigm tends to dominate thinking and rese…

  • Can supernaturals really heal? A view of science that shows how they might

    Sidney GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropological Forum2003Citada por: 1Referências: 1

    This article does not have an abstract

  • Morton Klass, 1928-2001

    Sidney Greenfield, Benson SalerARTICLEAnthropological Forum2003

    This article does not have an abstract

  • Nature/nurture and the anthropology of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead as an agenda for revolutionary politics

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEHorizontes Antropológicos2001Citada por: 2Referências: 15

    There is much more involved in the nature/nurture debate than an abstract theoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of the debate leads logically to significantly different views of the social order and holds different implications for social policy. In this paper I shall argue that Boas' Anthropology with its emphasis on cultural relativism was as much a social and political agenda as it was a scientific theory. The posi…

  • Capitalism

    Sidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1999

  • The Brazilian Puzzle

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1996Citada por: 2

  • Syncretism and racism in “esoteric” Umbanda

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEHorizontes Antropológicos1995Referências: 3

    This paper examines the addition of Umbanda spirits (exus) into the therapeutic treatments of break-away Kardecist healers. The author analyses some of the implications of the use of Umbanda spirits. After first presenting Umbanda as a syncretic religion whose founders saw it as a hopefully unifying and integrating religion for a racially, ethnically and socially divided Brazilian society, he describes two cases of “disobsession” therapy summariz…

  • Descendants of European immigrants in Southern Brazil as participants and heads of Afro‐Brazilian religious centres

    Sidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies1994Citada por: 3Referências: 7

    This article is about a unique case of assimilation: the entry of descendants of nineteenth‐ and early‐twentieth‐century European immigrants to southern Brazil into Afro‐Brazilian religious groups, some as heads of their own centres. The discussion is placed within the framework of the contemporary multiculturalist debate over assimilation. The emigration of Europeans to rural southern Brazil is summarized. African slaves are shown to have been e…

  • Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality

    Open AccessSidney GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1993

  • Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1993

    Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in. Pluralistic World by Felicitas D. Goodman. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana .University Press, 1988. Pp. 193. ISBN 0-253-31899-8

  • Spirits and spiritist therapy in Southern Brazil

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry1992

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1992

  • Transition

    Open AccessSidney GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1991Citada por: 1

  • Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums1

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1991Citada por: 7Referências: 3

  • The Religious Imagination in New Guine

    Open AccessSidney GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1991

    Gilbert Herdt and Michele Stephen. eds. The Religious Imagination in New Guinea. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-8135- 1458-4. Hardcover $48.00. Paperback $16.00. Pp. 262

  • Turner and Anti-Turner in the image of Christian pilgrimage in Brazil

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1990Citada por: 5Referências: 6

    Victor Turner's view of pilgrimage is reexamined and questioned using data collected at the shrine to Saint Francis of Assisi in Canindi, a small town in northeast Brazil. Turner's view of pilgrimage as a liminal state in which the pilgrim is out of structure is summarized in terms of his major theoretical assumptions and objectives. The shrine in Canindé and the pilgrimage there are described. Pilgrimage is examined in terms of the symbolic assu…

  • Hail Umbanda . 1988. Produced and directed by José Araújo . 46 minutes, color

    Open AccessSidney Greenfield, Sidney M GreenfieldARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1989