UpComing Deadline – Call for Managing Editor for Anthropology of Consciousness Journal
CALL FOR MANAGING EDITOR Anthropology of Consciousness DEADLINE FEBRUARY 28, 2018 The Executive Board of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness is now inviting applications for Managing Editor of […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
You Are the Mountain: Modeling Religious Experience in Light of Cognitive Neuroscience
Bryan Rill (Florida State University) In recent years insights from cognitive neuroscience have led anthropologists to reconsider constructs of culture and experience. Neuroanthropology now provides evidence that patterned practices have the […]