Mira Zussman
Biographic Data
| ID | 98853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mira Zussman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mira |
| FAMILY NAME | Zussman |
| SIGNATURE | ZUSSMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Development And Disenchantment In Rural Tunisia
My first introduction to the lower Medjerda Valley was in 1976 byWerner Kiene, then director of economic development programs in NorthAfrica for the Ford Foundation, and by professors Ali Ben Zaid Salmi andMonee£ Ben Said, codirectors of the Department of Rural Social Sciences atthe National Agronomy Institute of Tunisia (INA TI. The region ofMedjerdaturned out to be an ideal fieldsite, and I am grateful to the team at INAT forintroducing me to t…
On Meeting Amatera-Su (and Oya, too)
even the guy who cuts my hair got into the act. He’s from Brazil. Candomblé practitioner. Told me that according to Ife tradition, the goddess who watches over me is Oya, the Yoruba warrior goddess. He said he could tell by the condition of my hair that I was preparing for battle. Haircut divination
Shifts of Consciousness in Consensual S/M, Bondage, and Fetish Play
The literature on sado-masochism (S/M) and dominance and submission (D/S) tends to focus either on the psychodynamics of perversion or, in more magnanimous moments, on rites of reversal in the power relations of participants. This paper shifts the focus of analysis to the altered states of consciousness achieved in consensual S/M, bondage and fetish play and demonstrates the self-conscious affinity between S/M and ecstatic religious practices lik…
Cosmology, Anomaly, and Paradigm Shift in the Classroom
Most students step into our classrooms completely innocent of the notion of consciousness, consciousness studies, or the possibility of altering states of consciousness. Our task is to build our courses to meet these students needs at the undergraduate level, and to bring them slowly-and with care-into the realm of consciousness studies. Protection of human subjects surely extends to our students in the classroom and not just to natives of some d…
Shifts of Consciousness in Consensual S/M, Bondage, and Fetish Play
The literature on sado-masochism (S/M) and dominance and submission (D/S) tends to focus either on the psychodynamics of perversion or, in more magnanimous moments, on rites of reversal in the power relations of participants. This paper shifts the focus of analysis to the altered states of consciousness achieved in consensual S/M, bondage and fetish play and demonstrates the self-conscious affinity between S/M and ecstatic religious practices lik…
Cosmology, Anomaly, and Paradigm Shift in the Classroom
Most students step into our classrooms completely innocent of the notion of consciousness, consciousness studies, or the possibility of altering states of consciousness. Our task is to build our courses to meet these students needs at the undergraduate level, and to bring them slowly-and with care-into the realm of consciousness studies. Protection of human subjects surely extends to our students in the classroom and not just to natives of some d…
Shifts of Consciousness in Consensual S/M, Bondage, and Fetish Play
The literature on sado-masochism (S/M) and dominance and submission (D/S) tends to focus either on the psychodynamics of perversion or, in more magnanimous moments, on rites of reversal in the power relations of participants. This paper shifts the focus of analysis to the altered states of consciousness achieved in consensual S/M, bondage and fetish play and demonstrates the self-conscious affinity between S/M and ecstatic religious practices lik…
On Meeting Amatera-Su (and Oya, too)
even the guy who cuts my hair got into the act. He’s from Brazil. Candomblé practitioner. Told me that according to Ife tradition, the goddess who watches over me is Oya, the Yoruba warrior goddess. He said he could tell by the condition of my hair that I was preparing for battle. Haircut divination
Development And Disenchantment In Rural Tunisia
My first introduction to the lower Medjerda Valley was in 1976 byWerner Kiene, then director of economic development programs in NorthAfrica for the Ford Foundation, and by professors Ali Ben Zaid Salmi andMonee£ Ben Said, codirectors of the Department of Rural Social Sciences atthe National Agronomy Institute of Tunisia (INA TI. The region ofMedjerdaturned out to be an ideal fieldsite, and I am grateful to the team at INAT forintroducing me to t…
Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)