Transforming Energy into Action
SAC 37th Annual Conference March 29th – April 1st Encinitas, CA Transforming Energy into Action The concept of “subtle energy” is fundamental to many of the esoteric principals and spiritual […]
September 2016 SAC Letter from the President
21 Sept 2016 Dear SAC Members, It is my pleasure to reach out to our members with several big pieces of news about SAC. I would also like to solicit […]
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 […]