Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 ana...
ISBN(s)
1551110326, 9781551110325
