Possession (Chandler & Sharp series in cross-cultural themes)

Possession (Chandler & Sharp series in cross-cultural themes) by Bourguignon, Erika. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780883165249.

This book includes statistical information on possession belief and possession trance gathered from a large world-wide sample of societies. It includes a fairly lengthy analysis of Haitian voudu. The book specifically discusses possession as a type of belief and contrasts such beliefs with possession trance as a type of behavior. These two sorts of possession are shown to be associated with different types of societies, societies having only the possession belief being generally those of lesser complexity. (from the back cover)