E Richard Sorenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 89461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Richard Sorenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorenson |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSON E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institutes of Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sensuality and Consciousness VI
I am often asked how one finds isolated people whose whereabouts or existence is unsure. There is even greater curiosity about how one can join such people in the absence of common customs or spoken language. Moreso about how one makes sense of what one sees under such circumstances. After several years of contact with variously acculturated groups of settled and semi-settled sea nomads in the Sea of Andaman Moken, Moklen, and Urak Lawoi (and its…
Changthang Nomads of Central Tibet
Sensuality and Consciousness V
As was seen in paper IV of this series (Anthropology of Consciousness 7[4]: 9-30), basic consciousness can differ strikingly across eras. The type detailed there belongs to a preconquest era that survives today only in isolated enclaves that have not yet been absorbed within the thrall of conquering cultures. There are very few still left. Significantly they are widely distributed across the world.The type of consciousness peculiar to that era fo…
Sensuality and Consciousness IV Where Did the Liminal Flowers Go
Examination of isolated human enclaves in the world shows that basic human consciousness can differ strikingly across cultures, moreso across eras. Such anomaly was first stumbled onto during studies of child behavior in the Central Range of New Guinea at the time of Western contact. When similar child nurture was later seen spawning similar consciousness in isolated enclaves elsewhere, it became clear that a type of mentality very different from…
Sensuality and Consciousness III
In remote regions of the eastern Andaman, into the 1990s, a remarkable rapport with nature's forces was occurring.1 Most strikingly expressed during adolescence, it emerged spontaneously from a local type of consciousness. Both the capability and the underlying consciousness were conceived within a pervasive milieu of lushly sensual infant nurture.2 So dependable was the pattern of affection, it spawned a tactile language long before onset of spe…
Sensuality and Consciousness II
In rural south India, embracing a spectrum spanning ancient times to present, three fundamentally different types of love-sensibility persist. They impel life variously, beget dissimilar psychologies, spawn contrasting economic systems. Between them diverse hybrids rise. Although the spectrum transcends caste, a deeper, more pervasive Indic sense-of-caste extends to all. Its live-and-let- live character enables ancient lifeways to coexist with di…
Sensuality and Consciousness
Field/work still underway in the eastern Sea of Andaman shows that direct sensual experience of exotic cultures is sometimes needed to grasp central aspects of the way of life. A brief ethnographic sketch of the region precedes a discussion of how alien intrusion catastrophicaUy transforms the aboriginal consciousness. The spectrum of consciousness across the region is then analyzed. Two critical crosscultural sensual events essential to the stud…
In Quest of the Expressions of Human Kind
Ethnographic Film
To Further Phenomenological Inquiry
Proto-Agricultural Movement in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
Socio-Ecological Change Among the Fore of New Guinea [and Comments and Replies]
Historical reconstruction based on contemporary evidence shows that adoption of the sweet potato by the Fore approximately a century ago set in motion a series of events that transformed their institutions and natural surroundings. As the consequences of this act unraveled, the Fore moved to virgin lands, their population increased, the character of the living space they occupied was altered, and they were confronted with new kinds of social and …
Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion
Observers in both literate and preliterate cultures chose the predicted emotion for photographs of the face, although agreement was higher in the literate samples. These findings suggest that the pan-cultural element in facial displays of emotion is the association between facial muscular movements and discrete primary emotions, although cultures may still differ in what evokes an emotion, in rules for controlling the display of emotion, and in b…
Cora Indian Festive Music
Kerepe's House—A Housebuilding in New Guinea. Photographed in 1963 in the Maring region, Simbai Valley, Territory of New Guinea. Produced by Allison and Marek Jablonko
The Retrieval of Data from Changing Culture
E. Richard Sorenson, The Retrieval of Data from Changing Culture: A Strategy for Developing Research Documents for Continued Study, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Dam Anthropology: River Basin Research (Special Issue) (Jul., 1968), pp. 177-186
A Research Film Program in the Study of Changing Man [and Comments and Replies]
In dealing with human culture, researchers must often work with phenomena to which they cannot return because the passage of time irrevocably changes their makeup and because ethical and human considerations make it impossible to manipulate their subject in the laboratory under experimental conditions. Many believe that the loss of such information about the development and responses of man in many now disappearing diverse environmental and cultu…
Aufbau der völkerkundlichen Film‐Enzyklopädie (The Building up of the Ethnological Film Encyclopedia). Produced by the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film
Socio-Ecological Change Among the Fore of New Guinea [and Comments and Replies]
Historical reconstruction based on contemporary evidence shows that adoption of the sweet potato by the Fore approximately a century ago set in motion a series of events that transformed their institutions and natural surroundings. As the consequences of this act unraveled, the Fore moved to virgin lands, their population increased, the character of the living space they occupied was altered, and they were confronted with new kinds of social and …
A Research Film Program in the Study of Changing Man [and Comments and Replies]
In dealing with human culture, researchers must often work with phenomena to which they cannot return because the passage of time irrevocably changes their makeup and because ethical and human considerations make it impossible to manipulate their subject in the laboratory under experimental conditions. Many believe that the loss of such information about the development and responses of man in many now disappearing diverse environmental and cultu…
Proto-Agricultural Movement in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
Sensuality and Consciousness IV Where Did the Liminal Flowers Go
Examination of isolated human enclaves in the world shows that basic human consciousness can differ strikingly across cultures, moreso across eras. Such anomaly was first stumbled onto during studies of child behavior in the Central Range of New Guinea at the time of Western contact. When similar child nurture was later seen spawning similar consciousness in isolated enclaves elsewhere, it became clear that a type of mentality very different from…
To Further Phenomenological Inquiry
Sensuality and Consciousness II
In rural south India, embracing a spectrum spanning ancient times to present, three fundamentally different types of love-sensibility persist. They impel life variously, beget dissimilar psychologies, spawn contrasting economic systems. Between them diverse hybrids rise. Although the spectrum transcends caste, a deeper, more pervasive Indic sense-of-caste extends to all. Its live-and-let- live character enables ancient lifeways to coexist with di…
Sensuality and Consciousness
Field/work still underway in the eastern Sea of Andaman shows that direct sensual experience of exotic cultures is sometimes needed to grasp central aspects of the way of life. A brief ethnographic sketch of the region precedes a discussion of how alien intrusion catastrophicaUy transforms the aboriginal consciousness. The spectrum of consciousness across the region is then analyzed. Two critical crosscultural sensual events essential to the stud…
Sensuality and Consciousness V
As was seen in paper IV of this series (Anthropology of Consciousness 7[4]: 9-30), basic consciousness can differ strikingly across eras. The type detailed there belongs to a preconquest era that survives today only in isolated enclaves that have not yet been absorbed within the thrall of conquering cultures. There are very few still left. Significantly they are widely distributed across the world.The type of consciousness peculiar to that era fo…
Sensuality and Consciousness III
In remote regions of the eastern Andaman, into the 1990s, a remarkable rapport with nature's forces was occurring.1 Most strikingly expressed during adolescence, it emerged spontaneously from a local type of consciousness. Both the capability and the underlying consciousness were conceived within a pervasive milieu of lushly sensual infant nurture.2 So dependable was the pattern of affection, it spawned a tactile language long before onset of spe…
The Retrieval of Data from Changing Culture
E. Richard Sorenson, The Retrieval of Data from Changing Culture: A Strategy for Developing Research Documents for Continued Study, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Dam Anthropology: River Basin Research (Special Issue) (Jul., 1968), pp. 177-186
Aufbau der völkerkundlichen Film‐Enzyklopädie (The Building up of the Ethnological Film Encyclopedia). Produced by the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film
A Research Film Program in the Study of Changing Man [and Comments and Replies]
In dealing with human culture, researchers must often work with phenomena to which they cannot return because the passage of time irrevocably changes their makeup and because ethical and human considerations make it impossible to manipulate their subject in the laboratory under experimental conditions. Many believe that the loss of such information about the development and responses of man in many now disappearing diverse environmental and cultu…
Kerepe's House—A Housebuilding in New Guinea. Photographed in 1963 in the Maring region, Simbai Valley, Territory of New Guinea. Produced by Allison and Marek Jablonko
The Retrieval of Data from Changing Culture
E. Richard Sorenson, The Retrieval of Data from Changing Culture: A Strategy for Developing Research Documents for Continued Study, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Dam Anthropology: River Basin Research (Special Issue) (Jul., 1968), pp. 177-186
Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion
Observers in both literate and preliterate cultures chose the predicted emotion for photographs of the face, although agreement was higher in the literate samples. These findings suggest that the pan-cultural element in facial displays of emotion is the association between facial muscular movements and discrete primary emotions, although cultures may still differ in what evokes an emotion, in rules for controlling the display of emotion, and in b…
Cora Indian Festive Music
Socio-Ecological Change Among the Fore of New Guinea [and Comments and Replies]
Historical reconstruction based on contemporary evidence shows that adoption of the sweet potato by the Fore approximately a century ago set in motion a series of events that transformed their institutions and natural surroundings. As the consequences of this act unraveled, the Fore moved to virgin lands, their population increased, the character of the living space they occupied was altered, and they were confronted with new kinds of social and …
Proto-Agricultural Movement in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
To Further Phenomenological Inquiry
Ethnographic Film
In Quest of the Expressions of Human Kind
Sensuality and Consciousness
Field/work still underway in the eastern Sea of Andaman shows that direct sensual experience of exotic cultures is sometimes needed to grasp central aspects of the way of life. A brief ethnographic sketch of the region precedes a discussion of how alien intrusion catastrophicaUy transforms the aboriginal consciousness. The spectrum of consciousness across the region is then analyzed. Two critical crosscultural sensual events essential to the stud…
Sensuality and Consciousness III
In remote regions of the eastern Andaman, into the 1990s, a remarkable rapport with nature's forces was occurring.1 Most strikingly expressed during adolescence, it emerged spontaneously from a local type of consciousness. Both the capability and the underlying consciousness were conceived within a pervasive milieu of lushly sensual infant nurture.2 So dependable was the pattern of affection, it spawned a tactile language long before onset of spe…
Sensuality and Consciousness II
In rural south India, embracing a spectrum spanning ancient times to present, three fundamentally different types of love-sensibility persist. They impel life variously, beget dissimilar psychologies, spawn contrasting economic systems. Between them diverse hybrids rise. Although the spectrum transcends caste, a deeper, more pervasive Indic sense-of-caste extends to all. Its live-and-let- live character enables ancient lifeways to coexist with di…
Sensuality and Consciousness IV Where Did the Liminal Flowers Go
Examination of isolated human enclaves in the world shows that basic human consciousness can differ strikingly across cultures, moreso across eras. Such anomaly was first stumbled onto during studies of child behavior in the Central Range of New Guinea at the time of Western contact. When similar child nurture was later seen spawning similar consciousness in isolated enclaves elsewhere, it became clear that a type of mentality very different from…
Sensuality and Consciousness V
As was seen in paper IV of this series (Anthropology of Consciousness 7[4]: 9-30), basic consciousness can differ strikingly across eras. The type detailed there belongs to a preconquest era that survives today only in isolated enclaves that have not yet been absorbed within the thrall of conquering cultures. There are very few still left. Significantly they are widely distributed across the world.The type of consciousness peculiar to that era fo…
Sensuality and Consciousness VI
I am often asked how one finds isolated people whose whereabouts or existence is unsure. There is even greater curiosity about how one can join such people in the absence of common customs or spoken language. Moreso about how one makes sense of what one sees under such circumstances. After several years of contact with variously acculturated groups of settled and semi-settled sea nomads in the Sea of Andaman Moken, Moklen, and Urak Lawoi (and its…
Changthang Nomads of Central Tibet
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