Remediations: Audiological Media and the Experience of Tinnitus
Mack Hagood (Miami University, Ohio) Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) often utilize moments of technological breakdown to reveal the processes and mechanisms that constitute things we take for granted. […]
Boucan: loud “African” Girls Singing and Dancing in Public Spaces
Laura Steil (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) They call themselves “Bana Danger”, “Black Boukantes”, “Les Boucantières” or “Bana Massacreuzes”, names that refer to their African origins, racialized and gendered subjectivities, and […]
Doo Wop: Black Urban Consciousness and the Limits of Communitas in Digitally Mediated Performance
Scott Swan (Florida State University) Based on anecdotal evidence from oral history and supporting research, this paper proffers two challenges. First, this paper challenges conventional consideration of 1950s “doo wop” […]
BRAIN, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND EXPERIENCE
Chicago Hilton: Joliet Room Friday November 22, 2013 4:00 PM-5:45 PM The interrelationship between the brain, human consciousness, and experience has long been a mystery, a proverbial black box. Insights from […]
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 […]
Reexamining Near-Death and Other Experiences of the Beyond in Cultural Perspective
Jeffery L MacDonald (Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization) Reexamining Near-Death and Other Experiences of the Beyond in Cultural Perspective: Implications for the Anthropology of Consciousness Since the birth of anthropology, human […]
A Neuroanthropological Comparison of Anomalous Experiences During Meditation and Ethnographic Accounts of Shamanic Flight
M. Diane Hardgrave (Southern Methodist University and College of Southern Nevada) Accounts of anomalous experience during meditation in an earlier study (Hardgrave 2010), revealed a striking similarity with characteristics found in […]
Defraying the Costs of “Analysis Paralysis”
Christopher D Lynn (University of Alabama) Defraying the Costs of “Analysis Paralysis”: A Neuroanthropological Model of Dissociation, Deafferentation, and Trance Human intellectual efforts frequently seek to extend awareness and expand […]
CONSCIOUSNESS, MYTH AND PSYCHE
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATION of JOSEPH Campbell’s CONTRIBUTION to CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and the Joseph Campbell Foundation have collaborated to honor the legacy […]
“The Four Functions of Myth & the Divided Brain: How Campbell’s Model Nourishes the Hemispheres.”
Andrew Dean Gurevich (Mt. Hood Community College) “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the Myth of the atomic age […]