Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters : : The Anthropology of Extrodinary Experience / / ed. by Jean-Guy Goulet, David E Young.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Goulet, Jean-Guy,; Guédon, Marie Francoise,; Laughlin, Charles D.,; Marton, Yves,; Mills, Antonia,; Swartz, Lise,; Turner, Edith,; Wilkie, Rab,; Wilson, C. Roderick,; Young, David E.,; Young, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Goulet, Jean-Guy,; Young, David E,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: Extraordinary Experience and Fieldwork --; Dreams and Visions in Other Lifeworlds --; Dene Ways and the Ethnographer's Culture --; A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia --; Part II: Modeling Extraordinary Experience --; Psychic Energy & Transpersonal Experience: A biogenetic structural account of the Tibetan Dumo Yoga Practice --; Spirited Imagination: Ways of approaching the shaman's world --; Visitors in the Night: a creative energy model of spontaneous visions --; Part III: Taking Our Informants Seriously --; Seeing They See Not --; Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters --; Making a Scientific Investigation of Ethnographic Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation --; Part IV: Conclusion --; The Experiential Approach to Anthropology & Castaneda's Ambiguous Legacy --; Theoretical and Methodological Issues --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442602366; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442602366
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jean-Guy Goulet, David E Young.

Anthropologists of recent generations have always expressed enormous sympathy with 'non-rational' modes of thought, with the 'supernatural' experiences of people around the world. What they have rarely in their scholarly writing admitted to doing is giving any credence to the 'irrational' themselves -- though such beliefs have long been common among those who have lived and worked for extended periods in cultures different from those that dominate Western society. Now, in a ground-breaking volume, leading anthropologists describe such experiences and analyze what can occur "when one opens one's self to aspects of experience that previously have been ignored or repressed." The ten contributions to the book include Edith Turner on 'A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia', Rab Wilkie on 'Ways of Approaching the Shaman's World', and Marie Francoise Guedon on 'Dene Ways and the Ethnographer's Culture'. The editors' introduction and conclusion extensively discuss the general issues involved. Being Changed is a book that directly challenges the rationalist bias in Western tradition by developing a new, 'experimental' approach to extraordinary experiences -- and a book that takes traditional cultures seriously in a way that anthropology has rarely done before.