ABSTRACT
A pioneering attempt to formulate an anthropological approach to consciousness, Questions of Consciousness explores the importance of the conscious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process. It thereby explicitly raises questions, the answers to which have previously been neglected in anthropology: how aware are people of their behaviour? To what extent is the consciousness of individuals modelled by the cultures and social structures within which they live?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I
chapter 1|20 pages
Amazing grace
Meaning deficit, displacement and new consciousness in expressive interaction
chapter 2|19 pages
She came out of the field and into my home
Reflections, dreams and a search for consciousness in anthropological method
part |2 pages
Part II
chapter 6|17 pages
Trance and the theory of healing
Sociogenic and psychogenic components of consciousness
chapter 8|26 pages
The return of multiple consciousness
Decadence and postmodernity in the specification of psychopathology
part |2 pages
Part III
chapter 11|20 pages
Usurpers or pioneers?
European Commission bureaucrats and the question of ‘European consciousness’
