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  • Varieties of Cooperation

    Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making

    Edited by Clemens Eisenmann, Kathrin Englert, Cornelius Schubert, Ehler Voss ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume conceives cooperation in broad terms as any form of mutual making, in which goals, means, and procedures are seen as ongoing accomplishments. From the exchanges of goods or information, to the interactions between bodies or organizations, and the coordination between colleagues, competitors, friends or foes. Mutually making the conditions of mutual making entails translating ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship

    Ethnographic Inquiries into New Communities of Practice and Enskilment

    Edited by Marcello Múscari, Ehler Voss, Martin Zillinger ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally interconnected world. The increased mobility of people, things, signs, and symbols that shape and reshape trance practices and spiritual experiences has ... Read more

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    History, Traditions, and Indigenous Voices

    Edited by Dr Henrique Fernandes Antunes, Nidia Olvera Hernández PhD, Clancy Cavnar PhD, Beatriz Caiuby Labate PHD ...
    An essential new collection that explores the cultural, medicinal, and spiritual traditions of marijuana, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and other psychedelics—informed by both Western and Indigenous knowledgePsychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas is a collection of 23 psychedelic-specific articles, written by historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and those from other fields in the humanities. ... Read more

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  • Creativity/Anthropology

    Edited by Renato Rosaldo, Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Contributors include Barbara A. Babcock, Edward M. Bruner, James W. ... Read more

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  • Demystifying Shamans and Their World

    A Multidisciplinary Study

    by Adam J. Rock, Stanley Krippner ...
    Shamanism can be described as a group of techniques by which its practitioners enter the "spirit world," purportedly obtaining information that is used to help and to heal members of their social group. Despite a resurgence of interest in shamanism and shamanic states of consciousness, these phenomena are neither well-defined nor sufficiently understood. This multi-disciplinary study draws on the ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edited by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Read more

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  • Initiated by the Spirits

    Healing the Ills of Modernity through Shamanism, Psychedelics and the Power

    by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Randy Chung Gonzales ...
    Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led by a local shaman. There, to everyone's great surprise, Randy was initiated by discarnate entities, who instructed him and gave him healing powers. In this unique book, Randy tells his story to ... Read more

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  • Death, Mourning, and Burial

    A Cross-Cultural Reader

    Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben ...
    The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalismFew subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling Death, Mourning, and Burial offers cross-cultural readings that ... Read more

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  • Anthropology and Psychic Research

    by Robert L. Van De Castle ...
    Series series Psychic Exploration
    Very little cross-fertilization of ideas, concepts, or techniques has developed between the fields of anthropology and psychic research. This essay, chapter 11 of Psychic Exploration, reviews several firsthand reports of field observations that offer encouraging anecdotal support for the existence of psi. Also reviewed are the statistically-significant card testing experiments by Foster with ... Read more

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  • Women and Psychedelics

    Uncovering Invisible Voices

    Edited by Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Ibrahim Gabriell, Glauber Loures de Assis ...
    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge.Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a ... Read more

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  • Expanding Mindscapes

    A Global History of Psychedelics

    Edited by Erika Dyck, Chris Elcock ...
    The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors ... Read more

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  • Unfinished

    The Anthropology of Becoming

    Edited by João Biehl, Peter Locke ...
    This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical theory in a range of ... Read more

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