Aja Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aja Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aja |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reykjavík University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8219-8422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Detecting Empowerment, Sustaining Commitment: How archaeological metal detecting can underpin enduring health benefits for military veterans
While a still young but growing body of literature has begun mapping the positive effects that engagement in archaeological activities is proving to have on mental health and general wellbeing (see e.g. Everill and Burnell 2022; Sayer 2023), the literature on the positive effects of metal detecting as archaeological practice is so far scarce. This scarcity stands in stark contrast to the self-reported positive experiences of practitioners in e.g.…
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark
Coping with crisis is fundamental for human life, but so is the pursuit of everything good and fruitful. We revisit Foucault's technologies of the self as an analytical lens for what people do when pursuing a good life in contemporary Denmark. Comparing three emerging self-improvement domains; psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking, we explore processes though which individuals become subjects of their own…
At the Edge of the Sensible: Cultivating Doubt in Radically Engaged Anthropology and Spirituality
Transformative experiences have long been a central interest for anthropologists studying spiritual phenomena. During fieldwork, many ethnographers have themselves undergone such experiences, caused by and fueling their confidence in radical participation as the soundest approach to understanding spiritual phenomena. These anthropologists inadvertently find themselves faced with the question of the ontological status of such phenomena, responses …
Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Anne-Marie S. Christensen (red.): Mennesket. En introduktion til filosofisk antropologi
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Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark
Coping with crisis is fundamental for human life, but so is the pursuit of everything good and fruitful. We revisit Foucault's technologies of the self as an analytical lens for what people do when pursuing a good life in contemporary Denmark. Comparing three emerging self-improvement domains; psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking, we explore processes though which individuals become subjects of their own…
At the Edge of the Sensible: Cultivating Doubt in Radically Engaged Anthropology and Spirituality
Transformative experiences have long been a central interest for anthropologists studying spiritual phenomena. During fieldwork, many ethnographers have themselves undergone such experiences, caused by and fueling their confidence in radical participation as the soundest approach to understanding spiritual phenomena. These anthropologists inadvertently find themselves faced with the question of the ontological status of such phenomena, responses …
Detecting Empowerment, Sustaining Commitment: How archaeological metal detecting can underpin enduring health benefits for military veterans
While a still young but growing body of literature has begun mapping the positive effects that engagement in archaeological activities is proving to have on mental health and general wellbeing (see e.g. Everill and Burnell 2022; Sayer 2023), the literature on the positive effects of metal detecting as archaeological practice is so far scarce. This scarcity stands in stark contrast to the self-reported positive experiences of practitioners in e.g.…
Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Anne-Marie S. Christensen (red.): Mennesket. En introduktion til filosofisk antropologi
Anmeldes af Aja Smith
At the Edge of the Sensible: Cultivating Doubt in Radically Engaged Anthropology and Spirituality
Transformative experiences have long been a central interest for anthropologists studying spiritual phenomena. During fieldwork, many ethnographers have themselves undergone such experiences, caused by and fueling their confidence in radical participation as the soundest approach to understanding spiritual phenomena. These anthropologists inadvertently find themselves faced with the question of the ontological status of such phenomena, responses …
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark
Coping with crisis is fundamental for human life, but so is the pursuit of everything good and fruitful. We revisit Foucault's technologies of the self as an analytical lens for what people do when pursuing a good life in contemporary Denmark. Comparing three emerging self-improvement domains; psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking, we explore processes though which individuals become subjects of their own…
Detecting Empowerment, Sustaining Commitment: How archaeological metal detecting can underpin enduring health benefits for military veterans
While a still young but growing body of literature has begun mapping the positive effects that engagement in archaeological activities is proving to have on mental health and general wellbeing (see e.g. Everill and Burnell 2022; Sayer 2023), the literature on the positive effects of metal detecting as archaeological practice is so far scarce. This scarcity stands in stark contrast to the self-reported positive experiences of practitioners in e.g.…
Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Certainty (1 works)