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From The Teachings of Don Juan to Travels with Tooy: One Anthropologist's Trip
Author(s) -
Price Richard
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-3537.2011.01047.x
Subject(s) - possession (linguistics) , consciousness , ethnography , representation (politics) , anthropology , sociology , epistemology , law , philosophy , political science , linguistics , politics
This article was presented as the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Distinguished Lecture, 19 November 2010, New Orleans. It highlights four decades of changes in the anthropology of consciousness, US society, and the author's views of “religion.” It also interrogates the shifting ethics of writing about friends (or about anyone else) and the special responsibilities of ethnographers. It ends with a consideration of the challenge of writing about people in possession, a special case of the problematic representation of “native voices.”