The Avatar Faculty – Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

"In the best ethnographic tradition, Snodgrass's book brings together two seemingly unlikely bedfellows--online gaming and spirit possession--to draw conclusions about their astonishing similarity and, more importantly, their relevance to us all--even those who will never have direct experience of either one. Beyond the book's direct contributions to cultural anthropological theory and method, it engages the timely public concerns of online immersion and gaming disorders in a manner that would be deeply engaging to popular, undergraduate, and graduate audiences alike."--Lesley Jo Weaver, author of Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India