ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS最新文献

Oedipus without mommy–daddy: How anthropologists pushed psychiatrists to go beyond the Oedipus Complex 没有爸爸妈妈的俄狄浦斯：人类学家如何推动精神病学家超越俄狄浦斯情结

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.70000

Sanaullah Khan

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Consciousness as a cultivated faculty that develops according to social and historical conditions 意识是一种根据社会和历史条件而发展的培养能力

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.70001

Christian Frenopoulo

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The dawn of division: For an anthropological theory of consciousness through contemplative ethnography 分裂的曙光：通过沉思的民族志研究意识的人类学理论

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12246

Federico Divino

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“The Return of my Grandfather Napoleon”: Ancestor worship, impiety, and collective possession in North Honduras 《我祖父拿破仑的归来》：北洪都拉斯的祖先崇拜、不虔诚和集体占有

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12245

Marcela Perdomo

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Swallowed voice: The ethnography of historical experience as method to describe fate and ethnicity as the experience of geographical boundary lines embodied in refugees 吞咽的声音：以历史经验作为描述命运的方法的民族志，以体现在难民身上的地理边界线经验的民族志

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12243

Nina Katharina Müller-Schwarze

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Mystic doubt: In search of pure consciousness 神秘怀疑：寻找纯粹的意识

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12244

Olof Ohlson

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Ayahuasca rituals for the treatment of substance use disorders: Three narratives of former patients of a neo-shamanic center from Uruguay 治疗物质使用障碍的死藤水仪式：乌拉圭新萨满教中心前病人的三个叙述

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2024-11-10 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12242

Juan Scuro, Ismael Apud, Vanessa Martínez

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An exploratory study of alternative life experiences in comparison to transcendental near-death experiences 另类生命体验与超验濒死体验之比较研究

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2024-10-27 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12241

Robert A. King MA Psych, ORDM

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Of gods and men: The gift of bicameral mentality in Lake Atitlán's Mayan oral literature 神与人：湖Atitlán的玛雅口头文学的两院制思维的礼物

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12236

José M. Franco Rodríguez, Daniel Montoya

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Embraced: On hands and nerves 拥抱关于手和神经

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12240

Lenore Manderson

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