All too often anthropologists and other social scientists go into the field with unrealistic expectations. Different cultural milieus are prime ground for misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and interrelational problems. This book is an excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, using familiar and not-so-familiar cultures as cases. The book covers participant observation and ethnographic interviewing, both short and long term. These methodologies are open to problems such as lack of communication, depression, hostility, danger, and moral and ethical dilemmas--problems that are...
All too often anthropologists and other social scientists go into the field with unrealistic expectations. Different cultural milieus are prime ground...
Australian Aborigines have expressed the idea of ancestral presence as a power existing in land, painting, dance, song, blood and ceremonial objects - a concept known in English as the Dreaming. This text examines how aspects of the Dreaming may have been linked to altered states of consciousness.
Australian Aborigines have expressed the idea of ancestral presence as a power existing in land, painting, dance, song, blood and ceremonial objects -...
As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. Portals investigates how we move beyond the conscious and physical world using our senses, into other realities of the spiritual and the divine. Portals looks at the techniques used to alter consciousness practised by shamans, monks and other religious specialists. These include the use of drugs. as well as drumming, chanting and meditation. The book provides a new, anthropologically-grounded perspective on the wide-ranging questions about the...
As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. ...
