Jack Hunter
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
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ABSTRACT
This article presents an overview of the fields of transpersonal anthropology,
the anthropology of consciousness and, the most recent development
in this lineage, paranthropology. After outlining the contributions
of these fields to the development of a new approach to the investigation
of so-called non-ordinary realities Hunter highlights the need for
ethnographers to participate in the transpersonal practices and experiences.
With link to the work of Fiona Bowie and Edith Turner, Hunter argues
that one must learn to ‘see as the Native sees’ in order
to truly grasp the experiential foundations of religious and spiritual
belief, and escape from the hegemonic dismissal of alternative
ontologies.
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No account of the universe in its
totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness
quite disregarded (James, 2004, p. 335).
Just as it is possible to have any number of geometries other than
the Euclidean which give an equally perfect account of space configurations,
so it is possible to have descriptions of the universe, all equally
valid, that do not contain our familiar contrasts of time and space
(Whorf, 1956, p. 58).
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Fonte: The Journal of the
British Association for the Study of Religions (www.basr.ac.uk)
ISSN: 0967-8948
DISKUS 17.2 (2015), 4-20
- https://www.academia.edu/17918642/_Between_Realness_and_Unrealness_Anthropology_Parapsychology_and_the_Ontology_of_Non-Ordinary_Realities
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Anthropology & the Supernatural: From Spirits to Consciousness
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Beyond Castaneda: A Brief History of Psychedelics in Anthropology
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"Between Realness and Unrealness": Anthropology, Parapsychology and
the Ontology of Non-Ordinary Realities
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Can Science See Spirits?
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Contemporary Physical Mediumship: Is it Part of a Continuous Tradition?
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Definitions, Origins, Functions and Experiences: Trends in the Anthropology
of the Supernatural from Tylor to Turner
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Music and Altered States of Consciousness in Shamanism and Spirit Possession:
An Overview of the Literature
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Numinous Conversations: Performance and the Manifestation of Spirits in Spirit
Possession Practices
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"Spirits are the Problem": Anthropology and Conceptualising Spiritual
Beings
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Talking With the Spirits: Anthropology and Interpreting Spirit Communicator
Leiam de Jack Hunter; Joey M. Caswell, Lucas W.E. Tessaro :
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Phenomenological Convergence between Major Paradigms of Classic Parapsychology
and Cross-Cultural Practices: An Exploration of Paranthropology
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