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 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 […]
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS BUSINESS MEETING with KEYNOTE SPEAKER Stanley Krippner
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Open Business Meeting & Keynote Address by Stanley Krippner Saturday, November 19 7:45 PM – 9:00 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 101G Please join […]
Call for Papers Deadline Extended
Perceiving the Improbable: From Anthropology to Physics the (Hard) Evidence of Consciousness American Anthropological Association Conference November November 16-20 Minneapolis, MN Call for Papers Deadline EXTENDED April 10, 2016 Abstracts […]
Symbolic Types: A Ritual of Impurity
Mina Meir-Dviri Symbolic Types: A Ritual of Impurity Abstract The semi-commune “Little Home” is a cultural enclave whose beliefs and idiosyncratic, seemingly chaotic interactions are based on gender relations translated […]
Drugged Subjectivity, Intoxicating Alterity
Drugged Subjectivity, Intoxicating Alterity Donald Pollock Abstract This article explores the use of intoxicants by a community of Kulina Indians in western Brazil. I suggest that Kulina intoxication through alcohol, […]