Sharon G. Mijares SAC Board Member Bio
Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Union Institute. Her research “Fragmented Self, Archetypal Forces and the Embodied Mind“, focused on trauma and somatic consciousness and is now […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greetings from the Editors of the AoC
New AoC Editors: Nicole Torres and Gary Moore We are honored to accept the role of co-editors of the Anthropology of Consciousness. As the new editors of the journal, our […]
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 […]