
Anthropology of Consciousness
Edited by:
Hillary S. Webb
A publication of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Anthropology of Consciousness (AOC) publishes articles from multidisciplinary perspectives that focus on the study of consciousness and/or its practical application to contemporary issues. The journal supports rigorous and empirically-based inquiries into consciousness that utilize diverse methodologies, including ethnographic, scientific, experiential, historical, and alternative ways of knowing.
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Read the most downloaded articles in 2009 from Anthropology of Consciousness:
Developing the Moral Person: The Concepts of Human, Godmanhood, and Feelings in Some Russian Articulations of Morality
Jarrett Zigon
The Expansion of Consciousness: Vol. 1. By Ralph Metzner
Mark A. Schroll
Ayahuasca and Spiritual Crisis: Liminality as Space for Personal Growth
Sara E. Lewis
Encountering the Wilderness, Encountering the Mist: Nature, Romanticism, and Contemporary Paganism
Vanessa Sage
Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of Psychedelic Consciousness
Andy Letcher
Living in Death: The Evolution of Modern Vampirism
Cheryl Atwater
Trauma and Tattoo
Judith Holland Sarnecki
Yanomami Shamanic Initiation: The Meaning of Death and Postmortem Consciousness in Transformation
Zeljko Jokic
Learning from the Spirits: Candomble, Umbanda, and Kardecismo in Recife, Brazil
Stanley Krippner
Trance, Possession, Shamanism and Sex
I. M. Lewis
