ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Scope & Guideline
Fostering Interdisciplinary Insights into Consciousness
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Exploration of Consciousness and Cultural Practices:
The journal investigates how consciousness is understood, experienced, and manifested across different cultures, particularly through rituals, art, and traditional practices. - Interdisciplinary Approaches:
It embraces interdisciplinary methodologies, integrating insights from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy to deepen the understanding of consciousness. - Embodiment and Materiality:
The focus on how bodily experiences and material interactions influence consciousness, such as through tactile experiences, sensory deprivation, and the use of sacred plants. - Psychedelics and Altered States:
The journal features research on psychedelics, shamanic practices, and other means of inducing altered states of consciousness, exploring their cultural significances and therapeutic potentials. - Decolonization and Indigenous Knowledge:
A commitment to understanding and integrating indigenous perspectives and decolonizing methodologies in the study of consciousness, particularly in the context of sacred plants and traditional healing practices.
Trending and Emerging
- Digital and Mediated Experiences:
There is a growing interest in how digital technologies and social media influence human consciousness, particularly regarding intimacy, memory, and identity in online spaces. - Psychedelic Integration and Therapy:
An emerging trend is the exploration of psychedelics not just as substances but as integral components in therapeutic processes and cultural practices, highlighting their role in healing and consciousness expansion. - Embodied Cognition and Materiality:
Research focusing on the embodied experience of consciousness, examining how physical interactions and material culture shape mental states, is increasingly prevalent. - Interpersonal and Intersubjective Dynamics:
Emerging themes emphasize the relational aspects of consciousness, including how interpersonal interactions influence individual and collective experiences of consciousness. - Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives:
There is a clear trend towards incorporating decolonial frameworks and indigenous knowledge systems, particularly in the context of consciousness studies and healing practices.
Declining or Waning
- Traditional Anthropological Methods:
There seems to be a reduced focus on conventional ethnographic methods, with a shift towards more innovative and experiential approaches to studying consciousness. - Historical Perspectives on Consciousness:
Topics that delve deeply into historical analyses of consciousness and its evolution are less frequently addressed, as the journal increasingly prioritizes contemporary and practical implications. - Generalized Spirituality:
Broad discussions on spirituality without specific cultural contexts or practices are becoming less common, reflecting a shift towards more targeted and nuanced explorations. - Environmental Consciousness:
Although environmental themes have been part of the discourse, their specific exploration in relation to consciousness appears to be declining, possibly overshadowed by more direct studies of consciousness in human interactions.
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