RE: Anthropology and Other disciplines
Excellent. I am really excited to read that. Thank you again!
"... anthropologists take the whole context of a particular group of people into account"
I think this is the best approach to come to an understanding of what moves humanity. Sure you know Rudolf Steiner and maybe also Paul Watzlawick?
Bridging the disciplines is a really good approach and we should all be less competitors and more like "co-operators". To this holistic view I also include the "Five pillars of identity", in which human existence is based on these universal pillars and the areas in which everyone moves. If you are interested, I will check again where I can find links or hints in my articles. Though it is more related to Psychology.
Alan Watts, one of my heroes pointed once out that psychology is not a science but more of an art. I understood him in this way that dealing with the human psyche requires not only specialist knowledge but also a kind of artistic and humorous intuition.
Did you happen to come across this one yet?!? It totally underlines the importance of cross-disciplinary junctures and the power this process has in understanding a people, in this case Australian aboriginal groups, and specifically as "anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert"(Sylvie Poirier, Anthropology Teacher at Université Laval, Quebec City):
https://books.google.ca/books/about/A_World_of_Relationships.html?id=R1Oskt0srj4C&redir_esc=y
Namaste :)
No, I haven't. It sounds like exactly what interests me. Thank you!
I must duplicate myself in order to read all this great material out there:)
There is no review on this page yet. Maybe you'd like to write one about the book? What fascinated and impressed you about it in particular?
Just chewed in your last post and found this sonorous phrase:"Cooking healthy thoughts, makes a healthier mindset". I'm going to go into it later.
This makes me think of writing something about one of my favorites, perhaps as a kind of homage.
Anthropology is as it seems, much too underrepresented.
There is in deed half a quasi-infinite amount of reading out there, I hear you. Of the many books endowed of anthropological sharing, this one is particularly powerful as it is so encompassing in terms of multi-disciplinarian wholesomeness, on one hand. Coming from the perspective of academic background, such reach has never been seen in any of the books I had seen then or since.
Furthermore and more importantly, its potency derives straight from its sharing of experiential-knowledge as the stature of it goes well beyond the mundane and, metaphorically speaking, points at the moon for the ones ready and willing to look at it and move toward it...
The prose isn't elitist and is given a fair attempt at reaching a reader from as wide a background as one can given the situation. As you may know, this is a rare combo in the academic world!?.
Here's the presentation of her book, if you haven't had the chance of reading it through the link offered earlier: