The Unbounded Self: Peak Experiences and Border Crossings in Southern Indiana

Autor: Lucinda Carspecken
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Anthropology of Consciousness. 26:143-155
ISSN: 1053-4202
DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12038
Popis: In early visits to Lothlorien—which is a loosely Pagan community of environmentalists in Indiana—I was confounded by attempts to categorize either the place or the people. As one of the founders said, “I tend to run from labels so I don't know what I am. It's safer that way.” In this paper I explore four members’ narratives about the emotional high points in their lives, where they often cross the usual boundaries of self and other. At the same time the subjectivity at the core of these experiences is something that is felt and that cannot be dismissed as a discursive construct. Through these narratives I attempt to understand selfhood as a process—experientially inescapable but essentially in flux. I see a strong case for anthropologists moving beyond an overly neat, overly dichotomized view of “Western” and “non-Western” senses of self.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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