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{"title":"Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic","authors":"Keishi Okamoto","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on the ideas about a naturalistic social science developed by Dan Sperber. After that, I trace the history of computer science and cognitive psychology so as to demonstrate that the ontological status of the principles of magic is unclear, so long as they are understood as a mode of thought. Then, considering not only this ontological uncertainty also the realm of mystic experiences, I conceptualize the principles of magic not as a mode of thought but as interactive and experiential processes being generalized on several layers in the magician's superorganism.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Erratum to “Cogumelos do gênero Psilocybe nas Américas e no Brasil: Sua história com a humanidade, seus diversos usos e sua cosmopolítica”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70040","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Lino, A. (2026), “Cogumelos do gênero &lt;i&gt;Psilocybe&lt;/i&gt; nas Américas e no Brasil.” &lt;i&gt;Anthropology of Consciousness&lt;/i&gt;, 37: e70031. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70031.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Na página 15, seção 2.2.2, o subtítulo “Cerimônia com cogumelos psilocíbicos na sede do MAHKU, guiada por Evelyn Fernandes (Casa Hairá – Mairiporã/SP): comunicação pessoal sobre estas experiências”, &lt;b&gt;está incorreto&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;O correto é:&lt;/b&gt; “Cerimônias episódicas com cogumelos psilocíbicos, com relatos de observação de participante da Casa Hairá (Mairiporã/SP): comunicação pessoal sobre estas experiências”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nas páginas 15 e 16, no primeiro parágrafo da seção 2.2.2, o trecho “A psicóloga Evelyn Fernandes (comunicação pessoal), do espaço Casa Hairá, localizado no município de Mairiporã (interior de São Paulo), desde março de 2025, vem realizando cerimônias com uso de cogumelos do gênero &lt;i&gt;Psilocybe&lt;/i&gt;, com a presença de lideranças e juventudes da Aldeia Chico Curumim (da Terra Indígena Kaxinawá), localizada no município de Jordão, estado do Acre. Desde então, outras cerimônias com cogumelos psilocíbicos têm acontecido no próprio espaço da aldeia quanto na sede do MAHKU (Movimento Artístico Huni Kuin), que se localiza também no município de Jordão (AC)” &lt;b&gt;está incorreto&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;O correto é:&lt;/b&gt; “A psicanalista Evelyn Fernandes (comunicação pessoal), participante das atividades do espaço Casa Hairá, localizado no município de Mairiporã (interior de São Paulo), tomou ciência de ocorrências episódicas de cerimônias com uso de cogumelos do gênero &lt;i&gt;Psilocybe&lt;/i&gt;, cerimônias estas que contavam com a presença de lideranças e juventudes da Aldeia Chico Curumim (da Terra Indígena Kaxinawá), localizada no município de Jordão—estado do Acre—, e a partir delas, realizou notas observacionais. Segundo suas notas, outras cerimônias com cogumelos psilocíbicos têm acontecido, entre o povo Huni Kuin na sede do MAHKU (Movimento Artístico Huni Kuin), que se localiza também no município de Jordão (AC).”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Na página 16, no segundo parágrafo, o trecho “Já na primeira experiência de compartilhar cogumelos psilocíbicos aos seus parceiros Huni Kuin, fungos aos quais Evelyn (&lt;i&gt;idem&lt;/i&gt;) chama de ‘medicina’, ela notou que alguns indígenas já o conheciam, e que teriam tomado esta ‘medicina’ certa vez na Holanda, onde realizavam cerimônias ayahuasqueiras internacionais para público não-indígena. Portanto, estes itens rituais, desde o início, não teriam sido tratados com estranhamento, e sim com curiosidade e respeito. Nas cerimônias praticadas entre ela e os representantes indígenas, o custeio e o transporte dos fungos ficavam por conta dela, quem se deslocava no intuito de proporcionar estes estudos psilocíbicos a eles” &lt;b&gt;está incorreto&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;O correto é:&lt;/b&gt; “Em tais cerimônias com cogumelos psilocíbicos, aos quais Evelyn (&lt;i&gt;idem&lt;/i&gt;) chama de ‘medicina’, ela notou que alguns indígenas já conheciam estes fungos, e que teriam tomado esta ‘medicina’ certa vez na Holanda, onde realizav","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediumship in the Free State of Florida","authors":"Sarah Porch-Lee","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As the state of Florida continues to foster its reputation as a conservative political bastion, questions arise about women's experiences in the state—especially in spiritual, religious, and consciousness contexts. Drawing from both feminist anthropology and the anthropology of consciousness frameworks, “Mediumship in the Free State of Florida” discusses women's experiences in the practice of mediumship. This paper examines how the mediumship experience is interpreted by feminist perspectives, if women's mediumship experiences and work differ from men's, and discusses factors in central Florida that influence the work and experience of female mediums. These issues were addressed in surveys and interviews with mediums throughout Florida, and several areas of interest to the feminist study of consciousness were revealed. This paper discusses how Florida is beneficial to mediums and how mediumship highlights key feminist themes in religious and spiritual experiences for women.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unconscious Causation and Control of Human Behavior During Dissociation","authors":"Robert A. King","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Modern research has suggested that almost all human behavior occurs with an interaction between conscious and unconscious processes. However, the exact degree and specifics of that association are still a matter of debate. This article draws attention to an additional domain of consciousness related to that particular conversation that might be beneficial in resolving some of the disagreements that exist. Salient implications can be derived from examining cases of <i>observed somatic continuance</i>, referring to perceived out-of-body experiences in which the dissociated, consciously aware ego has the impression of watching as an observer while the physical body simultaneously continues to seemingly function on its own in amazing ways. A discussion concerning such cases suggests that the unconscious might be powerful enough to function in normalcy without conscious input in the moment. That conscious awareness has the sufficient power to alter and control some aspects of unconscious causation of behavior when not dissociated, and that the unconscious can take over control of human behavior during threats to life or social standing that are associated with various forms of dissociation. These insights can have important ramifications for consciousness studies while possibly helping us better understand the relevance of the unconscious in regard to human behavior.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Specters of Trauma and Healing: Navigating Memories and Spaces in Childhood Abuse Survivors Through an Ethnographic and Philosophical Lens","authors":"Gabriele Carmelo Rosato,&nbsp;Alessandra Campo","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the experiences of adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) and their relationship with domestic spaces through an ethnographic and philosophical lens. Survivors often perceive their homes as haunted sites, where traumatic memories persist and shape their present experiences. Drawing on hauntology and <i>The Uncanny</i>, the research explores how these spaces, once associated with trauma, are navigated and transformed by survivors through personalized rituals and storytelling. The ethnographic process allowed participants to verbalize their trauma, engage in purification practices, and reframe their narratives, offering insights into the spatial habituation of trauma. By integrating Ricoeur's concept of narrative time (1983) and Halbwachs' idea of collective memory (1950, 1992), the study highlights the transformative potential of shared narrative for both the individual survivors' recovery and the promotion of a shared awareness, in order to foster safer spaces both at the individual and collective level.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Muralismo como encargo participativo: Holografía de lo (in)visible en comunidades a’i cofán de la selva colombiana","authors":"Daniel Alberto Restrepo Hernández,&nbsp;Andrés Rojas Guarín,&nbsp;Alexander Queta Criollo","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When mural art in indigenous communities is commissioned as a participatory project, several methodological, epistemological, and aesthetic questions arise. This text proposes a horizontal and investigative approach to what we can simply call ‘muralism in the A'i Cofán community context,’ not as significant works executed in communities, but as collective events that emerge from unique and complex fieldwork that exceeds the artist's individuality. The wall ceases to be a passive frame and becomes a true threshold of understanding, laden with questions, affections, and an ‘aura’ that participates in the transition from the invisible to the visible and vice versa, a hologram and an echo (perhaps distant, mysterious, intimate?) of the cosmogony of the A'i Cofán people. Beyond the meanings and visions that yagé offers as heritage, pigment and guiding principle of this art form, we want to highlight the backdrop of a community life that is constantly suspended in the face of the chaos and violence of an ecological and social world in progressive disintegration, as well as the importance of pictorial art as a new form of positioning in the <i>ñutshe i'hamba</i>, the good thinking for living well of this people of the Colombian jungle.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abducted by a Terrestrial Alien: Sensory Distortions, Weird Fungi and Aerial Anomalies in a Decrepit Mountain Cabin","authors":"Aki Hakonen,&nbsp;Oula Seitsonen,&nbsp;Vesa-Pekka Herva","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This account explores how circumstances verging on the other-worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain. By applying the method of weirding, drawing inspiration from the narrative force of weird fiction, we examine how the team interacted with their decrepit shelter—a cabin teeming with fungal life amidst the terrestrial alien entity of the mountain. The experimental paper applies reflexive, autoethnographic writing in conceptualizing the experience of the unusual circumstances, considering what such otherworldly episodes can reveal about human engagement with the unfamiliar.</p>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anoc.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147649416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ghosts of Liberty: Notes on the Specters of São Paulo","authors":"Michael Amoruso","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article considers how ghosts and haunting point toward the affective mnemonics of built human space. Drawing on the fieldwork and archival research at Catholic churches in São Paulo's Liberdade neighborhood, I explore how the city is haunted by modernization. I mean this literally; ever since the coffee boom of the late nineteenth century, urban planners and politicians have sought to urbanize São Paulo by erasing its perceived atavisms—especially the material reminders of slavery and Indigeneity. Focusing specifically on the devotion to souls (<i>devoção às almas</i>), a practice with roots in the purgatorial devotionalism aimed at assuaging the suffering dead, I trace the racial dynamics of memory and forgetting that so often underpin spectral presence. In so doing, I draw from the anthropology of religion to offer methodological suggestions for studying living humans' engagement with the empirically evasive spirits of the dead.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147649436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cracks in the Dam: The Quiet Faith of a [CENSORED] Schoolteacher","authors":"Aaron Weiss","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Based on ethnographic research, this paper describes select views and experiences of a Sufi schoolteacher pressured at work into silence about her interpretation of Islam. At Tafsīr Islamic Academy (TIA), unity was broadly construed as achieved through conformity to mainstream Sunni belief and practice. Salihah, one of its teachers and a practicing Sufi, portrayed unity as an all-encompassing quality of Allah, realizable not through the elimination of external diversity but via annihilation of ego. Her pantheism-inflected interpretation of tawhid (God's oneness), positing God as “the only one that exists,” was especially deviant. I frame her mystical beliefs as ideational artifacts that helped tacitly facilitate an altered state of consciousness within the classroom, transforming a potentially fruitless interpersonal conflict into an opportunity for spiritual growth. This supports the more general claim that Salihah was not entirely hindered by silence from practicing her faith at Tafsīr, and may have benefited from it.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ghosts of the Affective Economy: Refusals of Meaning in the Virtual Ethnographic Settings of Vaporwave and the Backrooms","authors":"Robert W. Penner","doi":"10.1111/anoc.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anoc.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ethnographic interviews and forms of participant observation that focus narrowly on the verbal and textual expressions of collaborators and community members have real limitations. While recognizing these limitations is not new in anthropology, confronting and mitigating them must be continually rediscovered and renegotiated in new ethnographic contexts. In the marginal online community concerned with producing the virtual world known as <i>The Backrooms</i>, these limitations have appeared starkly in preliminary and ongoing ethnographic fieldwork. Participants in public forums and in private formal interview spaces have been reluctant, or even explicitly refused, to engage verbally or textually with questions of meaning. Within the context of such a digitally mediated and dispersed community, these refusals produce new challenges to ethnographic methodologies. In what follows, I draw upon existing ethnographic literature on the <i>Vaporwave</i> community, itself shaped by the concept of hauntology, to find guidance for studying marginal online communities like <i>The Backrooms</i> and specifically to understand how to sustain the ethnographer's project of ascertaining significance without fetishizing the pursuit of explicitly acknowledged (verbalized or written) meanings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42514,"journal":{"name":"ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147626373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}