Anthropology of Consciousness
The Anthropology of Consciousness (AoC)
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Consciousness. Published since 1990, the AoC provides a
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Volume 14, Number 2 (September-December
2003)
Volume 14, Number 1 (March-June 2003)
Volume 13, Number 2 (September-December 2002)
Volume 13, Number 1 (March-June 2002)
Volume 12, Number 2 (September-December 2001)
Volume 12, Number 1 (March-June 2001)
Volume
11, Numbers 3-4 (September-December 2000)
Volume 11, Numbers 1-2 (March-June 2000)
Volume 10, Number
4 (December 1999)
Volume 10,
Numbers 2-3 (June-September 1999)
Volume 10, Number 1 (March 1999)
Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1998)
Volume 9, Numbers 2-3
(June-September 1998)
Volume 9, Number 1 (March 1998)
Volume 8, Number 4 (December 1997)
Volume 8, Numbers 2-3
(June-September 1997)
Volume 8, Number 1 (March 1997)
Volume 7, Number 4 (December 1996)
Volume 7, Number 3 (September 1996)
Volume 7, Number 2 (June 1996)
Volume 7, Number 1 (March 1996)
Volume 6, Number 4 (December 1995)
Volume 6, Number 3 (September 1995)
Volume 6, Number 2 (June 1995)
Volume 6, Number 1 (March 1995)
Volume 5, Number 4 (December 1994)
Volume 5, Number 3 (September 1994)
Volume 5, Number 2 (June 1994)
Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1994)
Volume 4, Number 4 (December 1993)
Volume 4, Number 3 (September 1993)
Volume 4, Number 2 (June 1993)
Volume 4, Number 1 (March 1993)
Volume 3, Numbers 3-4 (July-December 1992)
Volume 3, Numbers 1-2 (March-June 1992)
Volume 2, Numbers 3-4 (September-December 1991)
Volume 2, Numbers 1-2 (March-June 1991)
Volume 1, Numbers 3-4 (October-December 1990)
Volume 1, Numbers 1-2 (March-June 1990)
Papers
Dreaming
the Dark Side of the Body
Mitra C. Emad - 1
Pathologizing
Possession: An Essay on Mind, Self, and Experience in Dissociation
Ashwin Budden - 27
Maripa:
To Know Everything
Robin
Rodd - 60
Reviews
Rationalism
Mysticism by John Horgan
Mark Schroll -
89
Nine
Worlds of Seid-Magic, by Jenny Blain
Eva Fridman - 94
Conference
Announcement
SAC's Annual Spring Meeting -
97
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Papers
Faith,
Healing, and "Ecstasy Deprivation": Secular Society in a New Age of
Anxiety
Erika Bourguignon - 1
Trance,
Possession, Shamanism and Sex
I.M. Lewis - 20
Further
Correspondences and Similarities of Shamanism and Cognitive Science
Timothy Hubbard - 40
Reviews
The
Antipodes if the Mind, Benny Shanon
Tom Roberts -
75
Review
of books by Hank Wesselman
Michael
Winkelman - 80
Conference
Announcement
SAC's Annual Spring Meeting -
86
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Papers
The
Descriptive Mind Science of Tibetan Buddhist Psychology
Henry Vyner - 1
Some
Correspondences and Similarities of Shamanism and Cognitive Science
Timothy Hubbard - 26
Anomalous
Experiences Reported by Field Anthropologists: Evaluating Theories Regarding
Religion
James
McClenon and Jennifer Nooney - 46
Interview
Anthropology,
Consciousness, and Spirituality: A Conversation with Ken Wilber
Grant Jewell Rich
- 43
Reviews
Being
Arising: Buddhist Psychology Books
Jeremy Hunter - 61
Hallucinogens,
Charles Grob, ed.
Aaron
Lampman - 64
Conference
Announcement
SAC's
23rd Annual Spring Meeting - 66
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Introduction
Commentary by the Editor
Grant Jewell Rich
- 1
Papers
Experience,
Coherence, and Culture: The Significance of Dilthey's 'Descriptive Psychology'
for the Anthropology of Consciousness
C. Jason Throop - 2
Collective Conscious
Experience Across Time
Axel A. Randrup - 27
How
Magic Works: New Zealand Feminist Witches' Theories of Ritual Action
Kathryn Rountree - 42
Embodying
the Spirits Among the Iu-Mien
Jeffrey L. MacDonald - 60
Review
The
Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
Tina Fields - 68
Conference
Announcement
SAC's
23rd Annual Spring Meeting - 66
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Papers
Domestic
Paths to Altered States and Transformations of Consciousness
Grant Jewell Rich
- 1
The Supreme Court versus Peyote: Consciousness
Alteration, Cultural Psychiatry and the Dilemma of Contemporary Subcultures
Joseph D. Calabrese - 4
Running
to the Moon: The Articulation and Construction of Self in Marathon
Runners
Erica L. Reischer - 19
Trauma
and Tattoo
Judith Sarnecki - 35
Interview
Anthropology,
Consciousness, and Spirituality: A Conversation with Ken Wilber
Grant Jewell Rich
- 43
Reviews
Laughter:
A
Scientific Investigation, by Robert Provine
Grant Jewell Rich
- 61
Varieties
of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Evidence,
Etzel
Cardeña, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner, eds.
Mark A.
Schroll - 63
Conference
Announcement
SAC's
22nd Annual Spring Meeting - 66
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Papers
Evenki Shamanistic Practices in Soviet Present
and Ethnographic Present Perfect
Nicolai Ssorin-Chaikov - 1
Designs of Deception: Concepts of Consciousness,
Spirituality and Survival in Capoeira Angola in Salvador, Brazil
Margaret Willson - 19
Perceptual Diversity: Is Polyphasic Consciousness
Necessary for Global Survival?
Tara W. Lumpkin - 37
Research Report
On Becoming a Spirit Medium in a "Rational Society"
Charles F. Emmons - 71
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Papers
Introduction: An Anthropology of Body and Consciousness
Grant Jewell Rich - 1
The Phenomenology of Body-Mind: The Contrasting Cases of Flow in Sports and
Contemplation
Jeremy Hunter and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - 5
Body and Mind in Mount Hagen, Highlands Papua New Guinea
Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern - 25
Body Practices and Consciousness: A Neglected Link
Don Hanlon Johnson - 40
Interview
Body and Consciousness: A Conversation with Antonio Damasio
Grant Jewell Rich - 54
Reviews
The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography, by Luke E.
Lassiter
William M. Clements - 62
Journey to the Spirit Land, by Wallace W. Zane
Geri-Ann Galanti - 64
Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery, by
Sander L. Gilman
Grant Jewell Rich - 65
In Memorium
Shamanistic Transformation in the Rainforest of Belize: A Personal Journey
dedicated to Michael Ripinsky-Naxon
Noga Naxon - 68
Conferences - 75
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Introduction: Conscious Death
Kathleen Young - 1
Papers
Concepts of Death Among Professional Alpine Climbers: Continuing Risk
Behaviors in the Face of Death
Paul E. James II - 2
Field Play: The Normalization of an Alternate Cognizance in Seriously Ill
Children
Kevin Saxton and Elke Goversten - 13
Collective Baha'i Identity Through Embodied Persecution: "Be ye the
fingers of one hand, the members of one body"
Curtis Humes and Katherine Clark - 23
Death and the Corpse: An Analysis of the Treatment of Death and Dead Bodies
in Contemporary American Society
Elizabeth J. Emerick - 33
Preparing for the Pure Land
Hsien Hui Shih - 48
Reburying the Dead: The Effects of NAGPRA on our Relationships and
Obligations to the Deceased in Defining Our Death Consciousness
Justin Colquhoun - 63
Living in Death: The Evolution of Modern Vampirism
Cheryl Atwater - 69
Doctors, Nurses, and Patients: Who Has Control Over Death and Dying?
Siv Kristin Ostlund
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Foreword
Stephen D. Glazier - 1
Introduction
Eva Jane Neumann Fridman - 3
Papers
A Native Taxonomy of Healing Among the Xinjiang Kazaks
Kagan Arik - 8
The Shaman’s Drum: A Unique Monument of Spiritual Culture of the Altai Turk
Peoples
Leonid P. Potapov - 24
"After the Past, Before the Present": New Shamanism in Gorny Altai
Andrei Vinogradov - 36
Buryat Shamanism: Home and Hearth — A Territorialism of the Spirit
Eva Jane Neumann Fridman - 45
Soul Suckers: Vampiric Shamans in Northern
Kamchatka, Russia
Alexander D. King - 57
Mannequins and Spirits: Representation and Resistance of Siberian Shamans
Thomas R. Miller - 69
Reviews
The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress, by
Shelly Errington
Paul Stoller - 81
The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities, by
Daniel C. Noel
Michael Ripinsky-Naxon - 83
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Papers
On Becoming an Oromo Anthropologist: Dream, Self and Ritual, Three
Interpretations
Aneesa Kassam - 1
Lies and Amnesia in Anthropological Research: Recycling the Waste
Ina Rösing - 13
Studying Mapuche Shaman/Healers in Chile from an Experiential
Perspective: Ethical and Methodological Problems
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo - 35
Research Report
Altered States, Conflicting Cultures: Shamans, Neo-Shamans and
Academics
Robert Wallis - 41
Interview
Erika Bourguignon: A Portrait of the Anthropology of Consciousness
Grant Jewell Rich - 50
Reviews
Books Received - 59
Calls for Papers - 61
Conferences - 62
Back Page
I am the Very Model of a Social Anthropologist
Andrew Buckser - 63
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Papers
On the Unsafe Side of the White Divide: New Perspectives on
the Dreaming of Australian Aborigines
Lynne Hume - 1
The Diné Women on the Navajo Approach to Dreams
John Dadosky - 16
Dream Fact and Real Fiction: The Realization of the
Imagined Self
Iain Edgar - 28
The Identification of Spiritual Content in Dream Reports
Kira Lynn Castro, Stanley Krippner, and Robert Tartz - 43
Research Report
Ritual Body Postures, Channeling, a-nd the Ecstatic Body Trance
Felicitas D. Goodman - 54
Reviews
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru, by Bonnie
Glass-Coffin
(Ana Mariella Bacigalupo) - 60
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture, by Frank
R. Wilson
(Grant Jewell Rich) - 62
The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History, by Edward S. Casey
(Helmut Wautischer) - 64
Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context, and Meaning in Qawwali, by
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
(Bruno Deschenês) - 67
Web Watch - 70
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Papers
The Whore and the Holy One: Contemporary Sacred Prostitution
and Transformative Consciousness
Lee Gilmore - 1
Shift of Consciousness in Consensual S/M, Bondage, and
Fetish Play
Mira Zussman - 15
Unveiling North African Women, Revisited: An Arab Feminist
Critique of Orientalist Mentality in Visual Art and Ethnography
Sana' Makhoul - 39
The Mid-life Transition to Lesbian: Expanding Consciousness
of Women
Paula F. Wolfe - 49
Reviews
Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, edited
by Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson
(Lourdes Giordani) - 73
The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New
York), by Theodore Levin
(Grant Jewell Rich) - 78
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy: Spirituality and Cultural Transformation among the
Kalahari Jul'hoansi, by Richard Katz, Megan Biesele, and Verna St. Denis
(Barry P. Michrina) - 80
Research Reports
Phone Jams: Improvisation and Peak Experience in Phone Sex Workers
Grant Jewell Rich - 82
Shamanic Practices in Modern Chinese Medicine in the United States
Claire Cassidy - 83
Obituary
Remembering Carlos Castaneda
Donald Sutherland - 84
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Papers
The Exorcising Sounds of Warfare: The Performance of
Shamanic Healing and the Struggle to Remain Mapuche
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo - 1
Human Discourse about Nature: Nature's Processes as
Discourse: The Pre-Columbian Peruvian Myth of Cavillaca
Claudette Kemper Columbus - 17
Sensuality and Consciousness VI: A Preconquest Sojourn
The Study of Child Behavior and Human Development in Cultural Isolates
E. Richard Sorenson - 34
Sister's Ghost: Valerie's Story
Valerie J. Mills, as told to Lisa A. Mertz - 56
Reviews
Anthropology at the Edge: Essays on Culture, Symbol, and Consciousness, by J.
Ian Prattis
(Douglass Price-Williams) - 62
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth
and Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, by Ian Stevenson
(Christopher Roth)- 64
Explorations in Anthropology and Theology, edited by Frank A. Salamone and
Walter Randolph Adams
(Diane King) - 68
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States of Consciousness and Rock/Cave Art
Geri-Ann Galanti, Guest Editor
Guest Editorial - 1
Papers
On Neuropsychology in Southern African Rock Art Research
Geoffrey Blundell - 3
The Mind in the Cave - The Cave in the Mind: Altered
Consciousness in the Upper Paleolithic
David J. Lewis-Williams and Jean Clottes - 13
Cognitive Neuroscience, Shamanism, and the Rock Art of
Native California
David S. Whitley - 22
Seeking Power ate Willow Creek Cave, Northern California
Carol Patterson - 38
Review
Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook, Stephen D. Glazier, ed.
(Mark Gruber) - 50
Books Received - 53
Research Report - 55
Announcements - 61
Obituary
Kathleen Kamm Rawlings (1921-1997)
Geri-Ann Galanti - 62
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Papers
Doing it in Cyberspace: Cultural Sensitivity in
Applied Anthropology
Janet LeValley - 113
Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New
Subcultures
Steve Mizrach - 133
The Evolution of Cyborg Consciousness
Charles D. Laughlin - 144
Review
Culture, Drugs, and Society: A Social Science Approach to Drug Use,
by Ed Knipe
(Michael Winkelman) - 160
Letters to the Editor - 162
Research Reports - 168
Web Watch - 173
Call for Papers - 174
Announcements - 175
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Papers
Body, Brain, and Behavior: The
Neuroanthropology of the Body Image
Charles Laughlin - 49
Monotonous Percussion Drumming and Trance
Postures: A Controlled Evaluation of Phenomenological Effects
Lisa N. Woodside, V.K. Kumar, and Ronald J. Pekala - 69
Twirling the Needle: Pinning Down
Anthropologists' Emergent Bodies in the Disclosive Field of American Acupuncture
Mitra Emad - 88
Finding Order in David's Disorder
Lori L. Jervis - 97
Research Reports - 106
Web Watch - 108
Call for Papers - 109
Announcements - 110
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Papers
Sensuality and Consciousness V: Emergence of
the "Savage Savage"--The Study of Child Behavior and Development in Cultural
Isolates
E. Richard Sorenson - 1
Trance Types and Amnesia Revisited: Using Detailed
Interviews to Fill in the Gaps
Sarasvati Buhrman - 10
The Role of Mandalas in Navajo and Tibetan Rituals
Stanley Krippner - 22
Reviews
Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology,
edited by Michael Jackson
(Kevin K. Birth) - 32
The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence among a Northern Alaskan People,
by Edith Turner
(Lisa Mertz) - 34
The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts, by
Gregory G. Maskarinec
(Joan B. Townsend) - 36
Web Watch - 39
Announcements - 40
Call for Papers - 43
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Articles
Possession in Two Balinese Trance Ceremonies
Hoyt Edge - 1
Sensuality and Consciousness IV: Where Did the Liminal
Flowers Go?--The Study of Child Behavior and Development in Cultural Isolates
E. Richard Sorenson - 9
Tribal Lore in Present-day Paleoanthropology: A Case Study
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone - 31
E-mail to the Editor - 51
Call for Papers - 52
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Articles
Through
Dialogue with Contemporary Yakut Shamans: How They Revive Their World View
Takako Yamada - 1
The Mythology of Evil Among North American Indian Yuroks and
Its Implications for Western Spirituality
Royal Alsup and Stanley Krippner - 15
Come-backs/Reincarnation as Integration; Adoption-out as
Disassociation: Examples from First Nations Northwest British Columbia
Antonia Mills and Linda Champion - 30
Review
Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream, by Greg Sarris
(Lisa Mertz) - 44
Calls for Papers - 46
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Articles
Dreaming as Spiritual Practice
Kelly Bulkeley - 1
Dreaming as Interaction
Douglass Price-Williams and Lydia Degarrod - 16
Reviews
Review Essay: Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution, edited
by Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold
(Dan Moonhawk Alford) - 24
The Nature of Shamanism: Substance and Function of a Religious Metaphor, by
Michael Rapinsky-Naxon
(John R. Baker) - 28
Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru, by Donald
Joralemon and Douglas Sharon
(Kirsten Bonde) - 30
Eagle Down is Our Law: Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts and Land Claims, by Antonia
Mills
(Enrique Salmon) - 31
Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult among the Yaka,
by René Devisch
(Edith Turner) - 33
Dreamwork, Anthropology and the Curing Professions: A Cultural Approach to
Dreamwork, by Ian R. Edgar
(Douglass Price-Williams) - 35
Raw Feeling: A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness, by
Robert Kirk
(Helmut Wautischer) - 37
Cultivating Consciousness: Enhancing Human Potential, Wellness, and Healing,
edited by K. Ramakrishna Rao
(Etzel Cardeña) - 39
Letter to the Editor - 41
Calls for Papers - 42
Announcements - 45
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Articles
Editorial: Teaching the Anthropology of Consciousness
Geri-Ann Galanti, Guest Editor - 1
The Challenges of Teaching Ethnopsychology
Barry Michrina - 4
Teaching "Consciousness" at the Lower Division
Level
John R. Baker - 10
Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft: On Performing Ethnography
in the Classroom
Constantine Hriskos - 20
Cosmology, Anomaly, and the Paradigm Shift in the Classroom
Mira Zussman - 28
Pace and Lead: The Grammar of Rapport
Matthew C. Bronson - 34
Experiential Shamanism in the College Classroom: Rewards and
Challenges
Leslie Conton - 39
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Articles
(Winner of the 1995 Volney Stefflre Award)
Memory and "Consciousness" in an Evolving Brazilian
Possession Tradition
Daniel Halperin - 1
Ritual States of Consciousness: A Way of Accounting for
Anomalies in the Observation and Explanation of Spirit Possession
Wallace W. Zane - 18
Inventing Traditions for the New Age: A Case Study in the
Earth Energy Tradition
Jeffery L. MacDonald - 31
Announcements - 46
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Articles
Renouncing Shamanic Practice: The Conflict
of Individual and Culture Experienced by a Mapuche Machi
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo - 1
Dreams, Reality and the Desire and Intent of Dreamers as
Experienced by a Fieldworker
Marianne George - 17
The Relevance of the Radical Empiricism of William James to
the Anthropology of Consciousness
Charles Laughlin and John McManus - 34
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Articles
Sensuality and Consciousness III: To Dance
with Nature's Forces
E. Richard Sorenson - 1
The Eclipse of the Sacred and the Paradoxical Liberation of
the Left Hand
Warren D. TenHouten - 15
About the First Principles of Philosophical Anthropology
Nickolay Omelchenko - 27
Reviews
Review Essay:
Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in
Okiek Women's Initiation, by Corinne A. Kratz
(Steven M. Friedson) - 37
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African
Shaman , by Malidoma Patrick Somé
(Frank Salamone) - 39
The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern
Western Culture , by Kelly Bulkeley
(Deborah Hillman) - 40
The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing , by Thomas J.
Csordas
(Felicitas D. Goodman) - 41
Announcements - 43
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Articles
Sensuality and Consciousness II: Love in
Rural South India
E. Richard Sorenson - 1
Speaking the Hidden in Female and Secret Images: Learning
about Culture as Spiritual Experience
Marianne George - 9
Culture, Trance, and the Mind-Brain
Richard Castillo - 17
Reviews
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge , by
Terence McKenna
(Kirsten Bonde) - 35
Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American
Culture , by David Hess
(Michael Winkelman) - 36
Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil , by David Hess
Patric V. Giesler - 37
Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession
Disorder, and Suicide , by Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen
(Stanley Krippner) - 39
Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America , edited by E. Jean Matteson
Langdon and Gerhard Baer
(Michael Rapinsky-Naxon) - 40
Letters to the Editor - 43
Announcements - 45
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Articles
The Near-Death Experience as Archetype: A Model for
"Prepared" Neurocognitive Processes
Andrew B. Newberg and Eugene G. d'Aquili - 1
On the Story-Telling Imperative That We Have in Mind
Roland Fischer - 16
Evolved Psychological Mechanisms and Content-Specificity
Harmon R. Holcomb III - 19
Reviews
Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the
Nepal Himalayas , by Robert R. Desjarlais
(Larry G. Peters) - 24
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North
America ,
by Åke Hultkrantz
(Antonia Mills) - 24
The Straight Path , by Richard Katz
(Geri-Ann Galanti) - 25
A Psychiatrist in Paradise , by Denny Thong
(Richard Castillo) - 26
Index to Volumes 1 through 5 - 27
Announcements - 30
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Special Issue: Dreaming and the Cognitive Revolution
Helmut Wautischer, Guest Editor
Guest Editorial - 1
Articles
Consciousness and the Cognitive Revolution:
A True Worldview Paradigm Shift
Roger W. Sperry and Polly Henninger - 3
Applications of Altered States of Consciousness in Daily
Life
Ruth-Inge Heinze - 8
Cultural Perspectives on Dreams and Consciousness
Douglass Price-Williams - 13
Waking Life, Dream Life, and the Construction of Reality
Stanley Krippner - 17
Some Philosophical Implications of Dream Experience
Gordon G. Globus - 24
The Stuff of Dreams
Stephen LaBerge - 28
Announcements - 31
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Articles
Shamanism and Altered States of
Consciousness
Douglass Price-Williams and Dureen J. Hughes - 1
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness
Michael Winkelman - 16
Review
Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives , edited by Frank
S. Kessel, Pamela M. Cole, and Dale L. Johnson
(Helmut Wautischer) - 26
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Articles
Rites of Passage and the Borderline Syndrome: Perspectives in
Transpersonal Anthropology
Larry G. Peters - 1
Drug Tourism in the Amazon
Marlene Dobkin de Rios - 16
Reviews
California Indian Shamanism, edited by Lowell John Bean
(Lisa Mertz) - 20
Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain, by William A. Christian, Jr.
(Nancy L. Frey) - 20
Letters to the Editor -21
Announcements - 22
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Articles
Sensuality and Consciousness: Psychosexual
Transformations in the Eastern Andaman
E. Richard Sorenson - 1
Dual Symbolic Classification, the Primary Emotions, and
Mandala Symbolism
Warren D. Ten-Houten - 10
Reviews
Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa ,
by John M. Janzen
(Edith Turner) - 17
Spiritual Dimensions of Healing: From Native Shamanism to Contemporary Health
Care ,
by Stanley Krippner and Patrick Welch
(William Lyon) - 17
Amazon Healer: The Life and Times of an Urban Shaman , by Marlene Dobkin de
Rios
(Stanley Krippner) - 18
Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence , edited by Robert
V. H. Dover, Katherine E. Seibold, and John H. McDowell
(Mark Rogers) - 19
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century , by Gloria Flaherty
(Marilyn Walker) 20
Letters to the Editor - 21
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Special Issue: The Evolution of Consciousness
Walter Randolph Adams, Guest Editor
Introduction 1
Articles
The Evolution of Consciousness? Transpersonal Theories in Light of
Cultural Relativism
Michael Winkelman - 3
The Process of Conversion: A Transformation of Consciousness
Gretchen Seigler - 10
Ritual, Consciousness, Belief: A Speculation on the Origin of Religion
Robert Bates Graber - 14
The Parietal and Occipital Lobes and the Development of Consciousness: Some Preliminary
Thoughts
Walter Randolph Adams - 19
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Articles
Complementarity: A Recursive Revision
Appropriate to Human Science
Daiyo Sawada and Michael Caley - 1
Structure and Anti-Structure in Monasticism and
Anthropology: Epistemological Parallels and Adaptive Models
Van A. Reidhead - 9
Reviews
Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing ,
by
Edith Turner
(Antonia Mills) - 23
Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations , edited by Barbara
Tedlock
(Frank Salamone) - 23
The Meeting of Science and Spirit: Guidelines for a New Age , by John White
(Michael Adzema) - 24
A Month for the Entertainment of Spirits , video by Kean Gibson
Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria, film by Sabine
Jell-Bahlsen
(Daniel Halperin) - 25
Cambridge Archeaological Journal
(James G. Matlock) - 26
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Articles
Twenty-five Years of Hallucinogenic Studies in Cross-Cultural
Perspective
Marlene Dobkin de Rios - 1
The Reality of Spirits: A Tabooed or Permitted Field of
Study?
Edith Turner - 9
Reviews
Completing Distinctions , by Douglas G. Flemons
(Claire M. Cassidy) - 13
The Forge of the Spirit: Structure, Motion, and Meaning in the Japanese Martial
Tradition , by John J. Donohue
(Andrew Craford) - 14
Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central
Asia ,
edited by Marjorie M. Balzer
(Miachel Ripinsky-Naxon) - 15
Shamans, Priests and Witches: A Cross-Cultural Study of Magico-Religious
Practioners , by Michael James Winkelman
(Douglass R. Price-Williams) - 16
Ecstacy, Ritual and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic
World , by
Felicitas D. Goodman
(Sidney M. Greenfield) - 16
Illuminating Shadows: The Mythic Power of Film , by Geoffrey Hill
(Frank Salamone) - 17
Videos by Sidney M. Greenfield and John B. Gray
(Libbet Crandon-Malamud) - 18
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Editorial
The Trouble with Consciousness
Charles D. Laughlin - 1
Letters to the Editor 2
Articles
A Cartography of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive
States of Consciousness
Roland Fischer - 3
Time, Intentionality, and a Neurophenomenology of the Dot
Charles D. Laughlin - 14
Contemporary Issues Concerning the Scientific Study of
Consciousness
Imants Baruss - 28
Reviews
The Gateway to Inner Space: Sacred Plants, Mysticism and
Psychotherapy. A Festschrift in Honor of Albert Hoffman , edited by Christian Rätsch
(John R. Baker) - 36
Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy, 1990 , edited by Walter
Andritzky
(Helmut Wautischer) - 38
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Psychology, Metaphor, or Actuality? A Probe into Iñupiaq Eskimo
Healing
Edith Turner - 1
When As-if Becomes As-is: The Spontaneous Initiation of a Brazilian Spiritist Medium
Matthew Bronson - 9
Consciousness in Biogenetic Structural Theory
Charles D. Laughlin - 17
Mutilation Mania--The Witch Craze Revisited: An Essay Review of An Alien Harvest
by Linda Moulton Howe
Robert E. Bartholomew - 23
Reviews
Black Elk's Story: Distinguishing its Lakota Purpose , by
Julian Rice
(William S. Lyon) - 25
Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction , by Linda Schierse
Leonard
(Michael C. Clatts) - 26
From the Editor - 27
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Divided Consciousness and Enlightenment in Hindu Yogis
Richard J. Castillo - 1
Rhythmic Drumming in Contemporary Shamanism and its Relationship to Auditory Driving
and Risk of Seizure Precipitation in Epileptics
Peggy A. Wright - 7
Therapeutic Effects of Hallucinogens
Michael Winkelman - 15
Hynosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums
Sydney M. Greenfield - 20
Reviews
Eve's Journey: Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition ,
by Nehama Aschenasy
(Sue Holloway) - 26
Women's Mysteries, Ancient and Modern , by Esther Harding
(Geraldine McNelly) - 27
Knowing Woman: A Feminine Psychology , by Irene Claremont de Castillejo
(Lea Hall) - 28
Handmaidens of the Lord: Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional
Religion ,
by Elaine Lawless
(Lesley Sharp) - 29
Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn , by Karen McCarthy
(Marijane Glazier) - 30
Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors , by Bobette Perone, H. Henrietta
Stockel, and Victoria Krueger
(LaVerna Price) - 31
Obituary
D. Scott Rogo and His Contributions to Parapsychology
George P. Hansen - 32
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The Quest for Transcendance: An Ethnography
of UFOs in America
Robert E. Bartholomew - 1
Research Strategies in the Study of Shamanism and Anomalous
Experience
Stanley Krippner - 13
The Visionary Experience in North American Shamanism
William S. Lyon - 20
"Cut Out to Do Work": Recruitment Experiences of a
Folk Healer
Stephen Childs - 25
"When God Can Do Anything": Belief Systems in Collision
Morton Klass - 32
Reviews
Evaluating Bigfoot Videos as an Anthropology Teaching Aid
(Robert E. Bartholomew and Paul B. Bartholomew) - 34
The Religious Imagination in New Guinea , edited by Gilbert Herdt and Michelle
Stephens
(Sidney M. Greenfield) - 35
Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise , by Ronald Siegel
(Geri-Ann Galanti) - 36
Dreamtime and Inner Space: The World of the Shaman , by Holger Kalweit
(Margaret Wilson) - 37
Obituaries
In Memoriam: Wayne W. Untereiner
Jacob Pandian - 38
Transition: Edson de Queiroz
Sidney M. Greenfield - 39
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Turner and Anti-Turner in the Image of Christian
Pilgrimage in Brazil
Sidney Greenfield - 1
Of Names and Signs: Reincarnation, Inheritance and Social Structure on the Northwest
Coast
James G. Matlock - 9
Bharata Natyam: A Hindu Fractal
by Sofia Diaz - 19
The Evolution of Consciousness: An Essay Review of Up From Eden (Wilber 1981)
by Michael Winkelman - 24
Reviews
Schamanismus und rituelles Heilen im Alten Peru , by Walter Andritsky
(Helmut Wautischer) - 32
Magic, Witchcraft, and Paganism in America: A Bibliography , by J. Gordon
Melton
(Michael Winkelman) - 34
Conscious Evolution , by Janet Lee Mitchell
(Joel Funk) - 35
Language: The Loaded Weapon , by Dwight Bolinger
(Roger Wescott) - 36
Abstracts of SAC/AAA Organized Sessions
I. Studies in the Anthropology of Consciousness - 37
II. Hypnosis, Trance, and Healing in Cross-Cultural Perspective - 38
Announcements - 39
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Special Issue: Dance as Consciousness in Motion
Jeffrey MacDonald, Editor
Dancing into Empty Space: The Role of Dance in Contemporary American Buddhist Studies
M. A. Greenstein - 1
From the Editor - 3
SAC Addresses - 3
SAC News - 3
SAC Annual Conference--Call for Papers - 3
SAC Publication Call for Papers - 4
Anthropology Newsletter Column - 4
SAC Conference Report - 4
World View and Belief, and Rites of Healing in a Spiritual Church in Los Angeles
Jo Anne Combs - 6
Balinese Dance: Beyond its Physical Aspect
I Wayan Dibia - 9
Summary Review - 12
Books Received for Review - 15
Requests - 15
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