Not every culture experiences healing the same way. So this summer students took on the role of anthropologists in a Problems Without Passports course. They traveled to Brazil to study spiritism, a healing modality in which mediums are said to channel spirits from other realms to deliver messages or instructions. Read more about their research at
dornsife.usc.edu. Images clockwise from top right: Students wait their turn to meet the renowned spiritist healer John of God; touring Brasilia; Selaron Steps, Rio de Janeiro; peeling veggies for a 'sacred soup'; view of Guanabara Bay. Photos courtesy of Oliver Hayward and Erin Moore.
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