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Ruth Finnegan

2 papers in the library · 5 citations · publishing 2018

Papers

Secrets of the Extraordinary Ordinary: The Revelations of Folklore and Anthropology

Humanities May 11, 2018 Ruth Finnegan 5 citations

The basic principle of folklore is constant—unveiling the hidden riches within the ordinary things of everyday life, contributing to the humanities. Examples include studying orality, life stories of obscure individuals, practices of hidden amateur musicians via ethnography rather than written scores, and research by scholars outside formal institutions. An important new topic, being explored by folklorists and anthropologists, is the area of noetics, psychic studies, heightened or altered consciousness, and the shared mind. This has a long history in antiquity, the middle ages, and eastern philosophies, covering dreaming, contact with the dead, experiencing music, and new perspectives on consciousness. Consolidating these into a recognized field linked across disciplines would greatly benefit the humanities.

DOI: 10.3390/h7020046 (opens in new tab) Folklore Scholarship Amateur Orality +15

Consciousness, Altered States of

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology September 5, 2018 Ruth Finnegan

Altered states of consciousness, apart from dreaming, are common in human life but rarely studied in depth by anthropologists. The main areas where such states have been found and partially studied include dreaming (including prophetic and creative dreams), sensations of contact with the dead, experiences of music, poetry, and trance, and psychic communication described as telepathy, extrasensory perception, or nonlocal awareness.

DOI: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1942 (opens in new tab)