“Not to be aware anymore”: indigenous Sumatran ideas and shamanic experiences of changed states of awareness/consciousness
“Not to be aware anymore”: indigenous Sumatran ideas and shamanic experiences of changed states of awareness/consciousness
Anthropologists working on altered states of consciousness (ASC) have suggested that we should do away with psychologizing concepts and use people's own terms for these experiences. With material drawn from the Orang Sakai of Sumatra this paper shows that practitioners who utilize ASC do recognize the alteration of states of awareness as preconditions for numinous interactions. Also critically discussed is the term ASC.
altered states of consciousness, shamanism, animism, trance, consciousness
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Porath, Nathan
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26 March 2013
Porath, Nathan
3ec6e51c-ceb8-46e2-8fd0-71a416f0f095
Porath, Nathan
(2013)
“Not to be aware anymore”: indigenous Sumatran ideas and shamanic experiences of changed states of awareness/consciousness.
Anthropology of Conciousness, 24 (1), .
(doi:10.1111/anoc.12001).
Abstract
Anthropologists working on altered states of consciousness (ASC) have suggested that we should do away with psychologizing concepts and use people's own terms for these experiences. With material drawn from the Orang Sakai of Sumatra this paper shows that practitioners who utilize ASC do recognize the alteration of states of awareness as preconditions for numinous interactions. Also critically discussed is the term ASC.
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Published date: 26 March 2013
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altered states of consciousness, shamanism, animism, trance, consciousness
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