Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Glass-Coffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Glass-Coffin |
| SIGNATURE | GLASS-COFFIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Anthropology in Promoting Diversity on a Public University Campus
We live in an era where xenophobia, Islamophobia, and dangerous “Othering” is gaining ground in our communities. If anthropology's purpose still is, as Ruth Benedict once said, “to make the world safe for human differences,” it is more important now than ever for colleges and universities to provide our students with the necessary tools to do so. This report documents how a new initiative is building capacity for positive interaction among all wh…
Belief Is Not Experience
For more than a hundred years, anthropologists have recorded stories of beliefs in other-than-human sentience and consciousness, yet we have most frequently insisted on contextualizing these stories in terms of cultural, epistemological, or ontological relativism. In this paper, I ask why we have had such a hard time taking reports of unseen realms seriously and describe the transformative role of personal experience as a catalyst for change in a…
Curanderas a la sombra de la Huaca de la Luna
En este trabajo se presenta información arqueológica sobre representaciones de mujeres curanderas en ceramios Moche halladas en el complejo arqueológico Huacas del Sol y de la Luna. El oficio de mujeres curanderas es un tema poco estudiado en la antropología cultural andina, y la presencia de representaciones de estas en época Moche demuestra una continuidad cultural entre el pasado prehispánico y el presente. Sugerimos que la información recopil…
Mesoamerican Healers
The Meaning of Experience
In 1995, Professor Armin Geertz presented a paper at this Congress in which he very succinctly outlined some of the post-modern chal lenges to the study of religion which face contemporary scholars.2 In that paper, he re-emphasized his call for an ethnohermeneutic approach to the study of religion. As I understand it, this approach seeks to overcome the oppositional poles of positivist and herme neudc inquiry by locating and making explicit the p…
Wandering Ways of-the Light Honed Wood
Curanderas a la sombra de la Huaca de la Luna
En este trabajo se presenta información arqueológica sobre representaciones de mujeres curanderas en ceramios Moche halladas en el complejo arqueológico Huacas del Sol y de la Luna. El oficio de mujeres curanderas es un tema poco estudiado en la antropología cultural andina, y la presencia de representaciones de estas en época Moche demuestra una continuidad cultural entre el pasado prehispánico y el presente. Sugerimos que la información recopil…
The Meaning of Experience
In 1995, Professor Armin Geertz presented a paper at this Congress in which he very succinctly outlined some of the post-modern chal lenges to the study of religion which face contemporary scholars.2 In that paper, he re-emphasized his call for an ethnohermeneutic approach to the study of religion. As I understand it, this approach seeks to overcome the oppositional poles of positivist and herme neudc inquiry by locating and making explicit the p…
Wandering Ways of-the Light Honed Wood
The Meaning of Experience
In 1995, Professor Armin Geertz presented a paper at this Congress in which he very succinctly outlined some of the post-modern chal lenges to the study of religion which face contemporary scholars.2 In that paper, he re-emphasized his call for an ethnohermeneutic approach to the study of religion. As I understand it, this approach seeks to overcome the oppositional poles of positivist and herme neudc inquiry by locating and making explicit the p…
Curanderas a la sombra de la Huaca de la Luna
En este trabajo se presenta información arqueológica sobre representaciones de mujeres curanderas en ceramios Moche halladas en el complejo arqueológico Huacas del Sol y de la Luna. El oficio de mujeres curanderas es un tema poco estudiado en la antropología cultural andina, y la presencia de representaciones de estas en época Moche demuestra una continuidad cultural entre el pasado prehispánico y el presente. Sugerimos que la información recopil…
Mesoamerican Healers
Belief Is Not Experience
For more than a hundred years, anthropologists have recorded stories of beliefs in other-than-human sentience and consciousness, yet we have most frequently insisted on contextualizing these stories in terms of cultural, epistemological, or ontological relativism. In this paper, I ask why we have had such a hard time taking reports of unseen realms seriously and describe the transformative role of personal experience as a catalyst for change in a…
The Role of Anthropology in Promoting Diversity on a Public University Campus
We live in an era where xenophobia, Islamophobia, and dangerous “Othering” is gaining ground in our communities. If anthropology's purpose still is, as Ruth Benedict once said, “to make the world safe for human differences,” it is more important now than ever for colleges and universities to provide our students with the necessary tools to do so. This report documents how a new initiative is building capacity for positive interaction among all wh…
History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Latin American history and culture (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)