Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience

Name: Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience
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ISBN: 9781551110325

ISBN-10: 1551110326

ISBN-13: 9781551110325

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Authors: David E. Young, Jean-Guy Goulet

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Anthropologists of recent generations have always expressed enormous sympathy with 'non-rational' modes of thought, with the 'supernatural' experiences of people around the world. What they have rarely in their scholarly writing admitted to doing is giving any credence to the 'irrational' themselves -- though such beliefs have long been common among those who have lived and worked for extended periods in cultures different from those that dominate Western society.Now, in a ground-breaking volume, leading anthropologists describe such experiences and analyze what can occur ""when one opens one's self to aspects of experience that previously have been ignored or repressed."" The ten…

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List price: $36.95
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 1/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Jean-Guy Goulet is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.