Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach

ISBN-13: 9780815346708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 258 str.

UK) Susan (University of Sussex Greenwood; USA) Erik D. (University of Louisville Goodwyn

Opis

Bringing about a creative dialogue between the anthropologist’s own experience of magical consciousness and theoretical analysis, this book is a poly-vocal study in which the voices of the neurobiologist, anthropologist as anthropologist, anthropologist as native, and various spirit beings weave an alternative narrative displaying the process of magical thinking.

Spis treści

Introduction: Magic in Consciousness  Part One: A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Neurobiology  1. The Analogical Reason of Magic  2. The Magical Mind-Body Problem  3. Dense Interactivity: Interdisciplinary Challenges  4. Mind, Matrix, and Metaphor: Integrating Patterns of Experience  Part Two: An Ethnography of Mind  5. The Anthropologist’s Story: Prologue  6. Looking Into the River   7. Grandpa’s Magical Desk  8. Dragon Source  9. Imagination  10. The Doors of Perception  11. A Mythological Language  12. Confrontation  13. Forging Anew  14. Cyclical Return  15. Ancestors  Part Three: Conclusions  16. A Creative Synthesis: Analysing the Magical Mode

O autorze

Susan Greenwood is a past lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London and University of Sussex.

Erik D. Goodwyn is Assistant Professor at University of Louisville.