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.)

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 �...

Table of Contents

• 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