Being Changed is a book that directly challenges the rationalist bias in Western tradition by developing a new, 'experimental' approach to extraordinary experiences.
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Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters
The Anthropology of Extrodinary Experience
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Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters
The Anthropology of Extrodinary Experience
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Table of contents
- 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
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