Michael Harner
Biographic Data
| ID | 153973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Harner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Harner |
| SIGNATURE | HARNER M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
My Path in Shamanism
Concluding Discussion
Michael Harner, Concluding Discussion: The Anthropologist as Healer, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, Healing and the Body Politic: Dilemmas of Doctoring in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Jul., 1996), pp. 162-164
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Professor Michael Harner
The ecological basis for Aztec sacrifice1
The Aztec emphasis on ritualized human sacrifice and the sheer quantities of victims involved have long been recognized as apparent extremes of cultural behavior in the world ethnographic record. This paper proposes an ecological and evolutionary theory to explain why the peculiar development of the Aztec sacrificial complex was a natural consequence of concrete subsistence problems that were distinctive to Mesoamerica, and especially to the Vall…
Material Culture of the Waiwái. Jens Yde
Ethnographic Bibliography of South America
The ecological basis for Aztec sacrifice1
The Aztec emphasis on ritualized human sacrifice and the sheer quantities of victims involved have long been recognized as apparent extremes of cultural behavior in the world ethnographic record. This paper proposes an ecological and evolutionary theory to explain why the peculiar development of the Aztec sacrificial complex was a natural consequence of concrete subsistence problems that were distinctive to Mesoamerica, and especially to the Vall…
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Ethnographic Bibliography of South America
Material Culture of the Waiwái. Jens Yde
Professor Michael Harner
The ecological basis for Aztec sacrifice1
The Aztec emphasis on ritualized human sacrifice and the sheer quantities of victims involved have long been recognized as apparent extremes of cultural behavior in the world ethnographic record. This paper proposes an ecological and evolutionary theory to explain why the peculiar development of the Aztec sacrificial complex was a natural consequence of concrete subsistence problems that were distinctive to Mesoamerica, and especially to the Vall…
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Concluding Discussion
Michael Harner, Concluding Discussion: The Anthropologist as Healer, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, Healing and the Body Politic: Dilemmas of Doctoring in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Jul., 1996), pp. 162-164
My Path in Shamanism
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (2 works) · Shamanism (2 works)