So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World in Crisis Book

List of Illustrations ix

Foreword of What Good is Knowledge if it is Not Employed? John Baker xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Matthew C. Branson Tina R. Fields 1

Part I Building and Connecting Communities

Chapter 1 Finding a Path Through Silver Rain: Steps Toward an Anthropology of Conscience Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo 30

Chapter 2 Incorporating an Anthropological Consciousness as a Model for Development Practice Margaret Willson 54

Chapter 3 The Old is Now: Creating a Shift Toward Wholeness through Dialogue Phillip H. Duran Glenn Aparicio Parry 75

Chapter 4 Constructing Knowledge One Grant at a Time Jeffery L. MacDonald 106

Part II Healing and Medicine

Chapter 5 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Stanley Krippner Stefan J. Kasian 136

Chapter 6 The Color of Sickness: A Postcolonial and Postmodern Anthropology Engages Disparities in Health-Care Outcomes Avram Rubin 164

Chapter 7 Shamanism: Ancient and Future Survival Michael Winkelman 204

Part III Language and Learning

Chapter 8 The Grammar of Transformation: What ESL Graduate Students Can Teach the Anthropology of Consciousness Matthew C. Bronson 232

Chapter 9 Tracking the Mother-Tongue: Tamazight from the Middle Atlas to the Amazigh Diaspora Mira Z. Amiras 254

Chapter 10 Manifesting Worldviews in Language Dan Moonhawk Alford 288

Part IV Re-Animating the World

Chapter 11 The Reality of Spirits: A Tabooed or Permitted Field of Study? Edith L. B. Turner 308

Chapter 12 Kumu Pohaku (Stones as Teachers): A wakening to the Spiritual Dimension of Ecosystems Tina R. Fields 317

Contributors 360

Index 367