Susan Greenwood, Erik D Goodwyn

Magical Consciousness

An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781138850361
• ISBN-10: 1138850365
• Artikelnr.: 42459733

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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