Meditations on Anthropology without an Object
Boulder Hopping in Streams of Consciousness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2464837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Williams (0000-0001-7968-1870), Sarah B Williams (The Evergreen State College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-106 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of Consciousness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-4202 • E-ISSN: 1556-3537 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ac.2007.18.1.65 |
| OpenAlex | W2062963526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
These meditations, which begin with Stephan Schwartz and Mark Schroll's contested and contesting histories of the lineage and founding of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (below), contribute to the imagining of what Bethe Hagens calls "the relatively new interdisciplinary field of anthropology of consciousness." Ethnographic vignettes from fieldwork of anthropologists, as well as fieldwork of students studying that fieldwork, highlight the paradox of anthropology's secularism and invite the reader, through the reading and writing of the text itself, to participate in the practices of consciousness described. Using Schwartz's metaphor of "boulders in the stream," these practices, and the modes of consciousness they invoke, serve as boulders that readers must swim around, or hop from, secularist anthropology through cyborg anthropology to an anthropology of consciousness itself
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |