Contents
Preface ix
Johannes Fabian
Acknowledgments xiii
Map of communities discussed xviii
Embodied Knowledge: Steps toward a Radical Anthropology
of Cross-cultural Encounters 1
Jean-Guy A. Goulet and Bruce Granville Miller
part one: Beyond Our Known Worlds 15
On Puzzling Wavelengths 17
Peter M. Gardner
On Presence 36
Petra Rethmann
Reveal or Conceal? 53
Barbara Wilkes
part two: Entanglements and Faithfulness to Experience 85
Recursive Epistemologies and an Ethics of Attention 88
Deborah Bird Rose
Ethnographic Rendez-vous: Field Accounts of Unexpected
Vulnerabilities and Constructed Differences 103
Anahí Viladrich
When the Extraordinary Hits Home: Experiencing Spiritualism 124
Deirdre Meintel
Prophecy, Sorcery, and Reincarnation: Inuit Spirituality in
the Age of Skepticism 158
Edmund Searles