Aja Smith

2 papers in the library · 15 citations · publishing 2021-2022

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Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark.

Medical Anthropology 2022 Margit Anne Petersen, Aja Smith, Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen et al. 12 citations

Coping with crisis is fundamental for human life, but so is the pursuit of everything good and fruitful. We revisit Foucault's technologies of the self as an analytical lens for what people do when pursuing a good life in contemporary Denmark. Comparing three emerging self-improvement domains; psychedelic micro-dosing, meditation and mindfulness, and fitness self-tracking, we explore processes...

DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2054716 Full text Denmark Fitness self-tracking Psychedelic micro-dosing Self-enhancement +2

At the Edge of the Sensible: Cultivating Doubt in Radically Engaged Anthropology and Spirituality

Ethos September 1, 2021 Aja Smith 3 citations

Abstract Transformative experiences have long been a central interest for anthropologists studying spiritual phenomena. During fieldwork, many ethnographers have themselves undergone such experiences, caused by and fueling their confidence in radical participation as the soundest approach to understanding spiritual phenomena. These anthropologists inadvertently find themselves faced with the...

DOI: 10.1111/etho.12314 Full text