1st Edition
The Burning Saints Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria
Biography
Xygalatas, Dimitris
"In conclusion, Xygalatas offers the most well-presented, defended, and empirically backed, overview of “extreme rituals” available. His attention to historical, anthropological, and scientific detail will hopefully become a prototype for future publications and research programmes in the field. Throughout its chapters the book offers valuable new insight to specialists of similar historical, anthropological, cognitive, and physiological topics. The book ultimately is a contribution to many fields but above all else, it is a contribution to interdisciplinary and scientific approaches to complex phenomena."
Justin E. Lane, Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Journal of Cognitive Historiography
