Anthropology and Parapsychology

Still Hostile Sisters in Science

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12911495
AutoresDavid Luke (0000-0003-2141-2453, Individual Differences, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen3
Número3
Páginas245-265
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime and Mind (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-696X • E-ISSN: 1751-6978
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/175169610x12754030955850
OpenAlexW2091867112
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

After a long, slow journey from the leather armchairs of its forefathers to out-of-body travels over Amazonian jungles, the anthropology of psi has progressed through a number of historical, methodological, and ontological developments. The course of this transformation from the detached and disbelieving dismissal of the occult to the engaged and emic entertainment of psi as a scientific possibility is discussed. Following a century of obscurity within anthropology, the notion of magic as psi finally found unique refuge within the anthropology of consciousness. Nevertheless, despite decades of research anthropological parapsychology can still be considered a completely nascent field of study and is speculated to remain so until its interdisciplinary imperative is actually fulfilled and its subject matter is shared fully by the disciplines that border it

Consciousness · Dismissal · Emic and etic · Epistemology · MAGIC (telescope · Parapsychology · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subject matter · Anthropology · History · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices