SAC Session PROPAGANDA AND EVIDENCE
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Session Saturday, November 19 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 103D Session Description: Inspired by the circus-like, propaganda filled 2016 American […]
SAC Invited Session FIELD OF DREAMS: ETHNOGRAPHIC DREAMING AS EVIDENCE, ACCIDENT, DISCOVERY
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Invited Session Saturday, November 19 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 101H Session Description: Responding to the theme of the 2016 […]
SAC INVITED SESSION: KINDLING TERROR, PANIC AND GOD
Society for Psychological Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Invited Session Friday, November 18 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Session Description: One of the central […]
SUPERNATURAL ASSAULTS AMONG CAMBODIAN REFUGEES WITH PTSD: NIGHTMARES, SLEEP PARALYSIS, HALLUCINATIONS, AND MIGRAINE-LIKE AURAS
Friday, November 18 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Devon Hinton Harvard Medical School Cultural frames influence radically the experiencing of such disorders as trauma, panic disorder, […]
FOSTERING EMOTIONAL “IMMUNITY” TO TERROR AND TRAUMA: RITUAL AS A SOURCE OF HEALTH RESILIENCE FOR INDIGENOUS INDIAN CONSERVATION REFUGEES
Friday, November 18 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Jeffrey Snodgrass Colorado State University I assess the attentional mechanisms and psychosomatic processes by which ritual practice produces […]
A COMPARATIVE CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF DRUG ADDICTION AMONG MESTIZOS IN THE UPPER HUALLAGA VALLEY, PERU
Friday, November 18 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Pablo Seward Delaporte Stanford University Among low-income mestizo peasants of the Upper Huallaga Valley in the Peruvian Amazon, […]
KINDLING VOICCES
Friday, November 18 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Tanya Luhrmann Stanford University Many psychiatric clinicians and scientists assume that the voices associated with serious psychotic illness, […]
KINDLING A SENSE OF PRESENCE: LESSONS FROM VIRTUAL REALITY
Friday, November 18 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Cordelia Erickson-Davis Stanford University Presence, or the sense of “being there,” is frequently invoked in descriptions of […]
WEIGHTED IDIOMS: CATEGORIES OF LIGHTNESS AND HEAVINESS IN THAI SPIRITUAL PHENOMENOLOGY
Presenting Author(s): Julia Cassaniti Washington State Friday, November 18 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B In this paper, I will explore how people in a small community in Northern […]
SAC Panel: PERCEIVING THE IMPROBABLE: THE (HARD) EVIDENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Invited Session Wednesday, November 16 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 200H Session Description: This session hopes to provide a critical […]