A. Irving Hallowell, the Foundations of Psychological Anthropology, and Altered States of Consciousness
E. Bourguignon
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 2019 DOI: 10.4324/9781315792057-3 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Altered states of consciousness |
| Citations | 2 |
| Key points | Argues that Hallowell's evolutionary theory posits that external shared symbolization transforms individual, internal, private phenomena into raw material for culture-building. |
Abstract
A. Irving Hallowell contributed to virtually all areas of psychological anthropology as it exists today. His range was immense: from mental health to perception and cognition, from projective techniques to behavioral evolution, from the concept of the self to acculturation. A striking feature of Hallowell’s work is that, notwithstanding the breadth of his interests in the area of overlap between anthropology and psychology, the area of overlap remained, throughout his career, only a portion of his contributions to anthropology. Many of the theoretical formulations and much of the literature review that appeared in a series of his important papers during the 1950s and 1960s were already present in his teaching in the mid-1940s. In Hallowell’s evolutionary terms, there too, what is individual, internal, private in other animals, in the presence of systems of external shared symbolization, is turned into raw material for culture-building.
Comparable studies
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|---|---|---|---|
| Altered States of Consciousness | 1966 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Functional neuroanatomy of altered states of consciousness: The transient hypofrontality hypothesis | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death | 1969 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics | 2022 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness: a multilevel framework of description and explanation | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |