Michael J Harner
Biographic Data
| ID | 90221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Harner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Harner |
| SIGNATURE | HARNER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
My Path in Shamanism
Shrunken Heads
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…
Reply to Hunn
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…
Music of the Jivaro of Ecuador
The Jívaro
Michael Harner's classic ethnography, *The Jívaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls*, offers a comprehensive account of the Shuar (previously known as Jívaro) people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Focusing on their culture prior to significant Western influence, Harner details their social organization, subsistence strategies, warfare practices (including the famed practice of head-shrinking, tsantsa), religious beliefs, shamanism, and worldview. Based…
Population Pressure and the Social Evolution of Agriculturalists
Growth of population pressure is postulated to be a major determinant of human social evolution through the mechanism of competition for increasingly scarce subsistence resources. In terms of a model for societies practicing agriculture, inter- and intra-group competition for such natural resources is seen as leading to the evolution of more competitively successful cooperative units in descent (in classless societies) and in political structure,…
Material Culture of the Waiwái. Jens Yde
Ethnographic Bibliography of South America
The Evolution of Horticultural Systems in Native South America, Causes and Consequences
Jívaro Souls
The Jívaro
Michael Harner's classic ethnography, *The Jívaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls*, offers a comprehensive account of the Shuar (previously known as Jívaro) people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Focusing on their culture prior to significant Western influence, Harner details their social organization, subsistence strategies, warfare practices (including the famed practice of head-shrinking, tsantsa), religious beliefs, shamanism, and worldview. Based…
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…
Population Pressure and the Social Evolution of Agriculturalists
Growth of population pressure is postulated to be a major determinant of human social evolution through the mechanism of competition for increasingly scarce subsistence resources. In terms of a model for societies practicing agriculture, inter- and intra-group competition for such natural resources is seen as leading to the evolution of more competitively successful cooperative units in descent (in classless societies) and in political structure,…
Jívaro Souls
Reply to Hunn
Jívaro Souls
The Evolution of Horticultural Systems in Native South America, Causes and Consequences
Ethnographic Bibliography of South America
Material Culture of the Waiwái. Jens Yde
Population Pressure and the Social Evolution of Agriculturalists
Growth of population pressure is postulated to be a major determinant of human social evolution through the mechanism of competition for increasingly scarce subsistence resources. In terms of a model for societies practicing agriculture, inter- and intra-group competition for such natural resources is seen as leading to the evolution of more competitively successful cooperative units in descent (in classless societies) and in political structure,…
The Jívaro
Michael Harner's classic ethnography, *The Jívaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls*, offers a comprehensive account of the Shuar (previously known as Jívaro) people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Focusing on their culture prior to significant Western influence, Harner details their social organization, subsistence strategies, warfare practices (including the famed practice of head-shrinking, tsantsa), religious beliefs, shamanism, and worldview. Based…
Music of the Jivaro of Ecuador
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…
Reply to Hunn
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
Shrunken Heads
My Path in Shamanism
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