Spiritual Translucency and Pornocratic Anthropology: Waiwai and Western Interpretations of a Religious Experience
Anthropology and Humanism December 1, 2007 George Mentore
This short article attempts to work within the craft of anthropology but, ultimately, seeks to do so against its historical intent to objectify. It describes and interprets a personal experience of sacred communion. In doing so, however, it argues that the success of any such processes eventually results in an obscene offence against the very experience of religious mystery.