Heart, Not Souls, Of Consciousness in Asabano Ethnopsychology
Journal of Consciousness Studies June 1, 2023 R. Lohmann
Ethnic cultural conceptualizations of consciousness often posit souls or other spirits, but these do not always address consciousness itself. This article describes an autochthonous model of consciousness that was current among the Asabano people of central New Guinea before first contact in the mid-twentieth century. In their conceptualization, one's own souls were not seen as essences of the...