Goulet / Young Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters

The Anthropology of Extrodinary Experience
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4426-0236-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Being Changed is a book that directly challenges the rationalist bias in Western tradition by developing a new, 'experimental' approach to extraordinary experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goulet, Jean-Guy

Young, David E

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Guédon: 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 & 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 & Castanda's Ambiguous Legacy
Jean-Guy Goulet and David Young: Theoretical and Methodological Issues References
Index"

Über Autor(innen)

GouletJean-Guy:

Jean-Guy Goulet is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.YoungDavid E:

David E. Young is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Cry of the Eagle: Encounters with a Cree Healer (University of Toronto Press, 1990).