Being changed : the anthropology of extraordinary experience
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Being changed : the anthropology of extraordinary experience
Broadview Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9781551110325
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Anthropologists of recent generations have always expressed enormous sympathy with 'non-rational' modes of thought, with the 'supernatural' experiences of people around the world. What they have rarely in their scholarly writing admitted to doing is giving any credence to the 'irrational' themselves -- though such beliefs have long been common among those who have lived and worked for extended periods in cultures different from those that dominate Western society. Now, in a ground-breaking volume, leading anthropologists describe such experiences and analyze what can occur ""when one opens one's self to aspects of experience that previously have been ignored or repressed."" The ten contributions to the book include Edith Turner on 'A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia', Rab Wilkie on 'Ways of Approaching the Shaman's World', and Marie Francoise Guedon on 'Dene Ways and the Ethnographer's Culture'. The editors' introduction and conclusion extensively discuss the general issues involved. Being Changed is a book that directly challenges the rationalist bias in Western tradition by developing a new, 'experimental' approach to extraordinary experiences -- and a book that takes traditional cultures seriously in a way that anthropology has rarely done before. "
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: pbk ISBN 9781551110400
Description
Anthropologists of recent generations have always expressed enormous sympathy with 'non-rational' modes of thought, with the 'supernatural' experiences of people around the world. What they have rarely in their scholarly writing admitted to doing is giving any credence to the 'irrational' themselves-though such beliefs have long been common among those who have lived and worked for extended periods in cultures different from those that dominate Western society.
Now, in a ground-breaking volume, leading anthropologists describe such experiences and analyze what can occur "when one opens one's self to aspects of experience that previously have been ignored or repressed." The ten contributions to the book include Edith Turner on 'A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia', Rab Wilkie on 'Ways of Approaching the Shaman's World', and Marie Francoise Guedon on 'Dene Ways and the Ethnographer's Culture'. The editors' introduction and conclusion extensively discuss the general issues involved.
Being Changed is a book that directly challenges the rationalist bias in Western tradition by developing a new, 'experimental' approach to extraordinary experiences-and a book that takes traditional cultures seriously in a way that anthropology has rarely done before.
Table of Contents
David E. Young and Jean-Guy Goulet: Introduction
Part I: Extraordinary Experience and Fieldwork
Jean-Guy Goulet: Dreams and Visions in Other Lifeworlds
Marie Francoise Guedon: Dene Ways and the Ethnographer's Culture
Edith Turner: A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia
Part II: Modeling Extraordinary Experience
Charles D. Laughlin, Jr.: Psychic Energy and Transpersonal Experience: A Biogenic Structural Account of the Tibetan Dumo Yoga Practice
Rab Wilkie: Spirited Imagination: Ways of Approaching the Shaman's World
David E. Young: Visitors in the Night: A Creative Energy Model of Spontaneous Visions
Part III: Taking our Informants Seriously
C. Roderick Wilson: Seeing They See Not
Lise Swartz: Being Changed by Cross-Culteral Encounters
Antonia Mills: Making a Scientific Investigation of Ethnographic Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
Part IV: Conclusion
Yves Marton: The Experimental Approach to Anthropology and Castanda's Ambiguous Legacy
Jean-Guy Goulet and David Young: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
References
Index
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