Erika Bourguignon: A Portrait of the Anthropology of Consciousness
Anthropology of Consciousness June 1, 1999 Grant J. Rich 6 citations
Erika Bourguignon, a leading figure in the anthropology of consciousness, discusses her decades-long career studying possession, altered states of consciousness, religion, psychological anthropology, and shamanism. Her fieldwork in Haiti and comparative work with Lenora Greenbaum established her as a preeminent psychological anthropologist and the premier anthropological authority on trance, possession, and altered states of consciousness. Melford Spiro describes her as resisting postmodernist and interpretivist trends in the field.