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Erika Bourguignon

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PhD Anthropology University of Vienna
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According to Wikipedia, Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon was an Austrian-born American anthropologist known primarily for her work on possession trance and other altered states of consciousness. She was “considered the premier anthropological authority on trance, possession, and altered states of consciousness” and "one of the founders of the field of anthropology of consciousness." She was born in Vienna, Austria, but left with her parents in 1938. After receiving a B.A. from Queens College in 1945, she began graduate studies at Northwestern University, working there under Melville J. Herskovits and Alfred Irving Hallowell. She did field research among the Chippewa in Wisconsin and in Haiti .

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Erika Bourguignon's Published Works

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Religion Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change (1973) (237)
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Role of Visions in Shamanism [and Comments and Reply] (1985) (161)
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply] (1984) (147)
Haiti, History, and the Gods (2020) (114)
Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Differences (1979) (81)
Magic: A Theoretical Reassessment [and Comments and Replies] (1982) (77)
Altered States of Consciousness within a General Evolutionary Perspective: A Holocultural Analysis (1977) (76)
Suffering and Healing, Subordination and Power: Women and Possession Trance (2004) (52)
The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (1980) (47)
Diversity and homogeneity in world societies (1973) (29)
Multiple Personality, Possession Trance, and the Psychic Unity of Mankind (1989) (28)
Hallucination and Trance: An Anthropologist’s Perspective (1970) (26)
A World of Women: Anthropological Studies of Women in the Societies of the World (1980) (22)
Memory in an Amnesic World: Holocaust, Exile, and the Return of the Suppressed (2005) (21)
Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Haiti (1954) (18)
Spirit Possession Belief and Social Structure (1976) (14)
Trance and shamanism: what's in a name? (1989) (13)
"POSSESSION STATES" IN INDIAN PATIENTS by J. S. TEJA, B. S. KHANNA, and T. B. SUBRAHMANYAM, Indian Journal of Psychiatry 12 (1970): 71-87 (1972) (12)
The Persistence of Folk Belief: Some Notes on Cannibalism and Zombis in Haiti (1959) (11)
Women, Possession Trance Cults, and the Extended Nutrient‐Deficiency Hypothesis (1983) (10)
The Dsm-Iv and Cultural Diversity (1992) (10)
BOOK REVIEW: ed. Joseph O. Vogel.ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRECOLONIAL AFRICA: ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND ENVIRONMENTS. Walnut Creek: Altamira,1997. (2000) (9)
A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World (2014) (8)
The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town. LESLEY A. SHARP (1995) (7)
Class Structure and Acculturation in Haiti (1952) (7)
Diversity and homogeneity : a comparative analysis of societal characteristics based on data from the Ethnographic atlas (1968) (7)
View of hills (1948) (7)
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE (1970) (6)
Vienna and Memory: Anthropology and Experience (1996) (6)
Faith, Healing and "Ecstasy Deprivation": Secular Society in a New Age of Anxiety (2003) (5)
Rorschach populars in a sample of Haitian protocols. (1955) (5)
Religion and Justice in Haitian Vodoun (1985) (5)
Possession and Social Change in Eastern Africa (1995) (4)
EXILE: A MEMOIR OF 1939 (1998) (3)
Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming. (2000) (3)
Sex Bias, Ethnocentrism, and Myth Building in Anthropology: The Case of Universal Male Dominance (1983) (3)
Case Studies in Spirit Possession. VINCENT CRAPANZANO, and VIVIAN GARRISON, Eds. (1978) (2)
Managing Diverse Working Styles: The Leadership Competitive Advantage (2004) (2)
The Haitians, the Healers, and the Anthropologist. Two Case Studies (1998) (2)
How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway, and: Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women, and: Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (review) (2001) (2)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Invisibles: Voodoo Gods in Haiti. Francis Huxley (1970) (1)
On the Dyadic Contract (1962) (1)
Dreams and Professional Personhood: The Contexts of Dream Telling and Dream Interpretation among American Psychotherapists. Mary-T. B. Dombeck. (1992) (1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Altered States of Consciousness (2015) (1)
Hortense Powdermaker, the Teacher (1991) (1)
American anthropology today : a personal view (1992) (1)
A. Irving Hallowell, the Foundations of Psychological Anthropology, and Altered States of Consciousness (2019) (1)
Symbol, faith, and ritual and the success of Healers: A Mexican case (1986) (1)
Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations. Barbara Tedlock (1990) (1)
Comment on Leacock's“Ceremonial Drinking in an Aero-Brazilian Cult” (1964) (1)
Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas. Sidney M. Greenfield , André Droogers (2002) (1)
Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams (Book Review). (2000) (1)
Haiti and the Art of Paul-Henri Bourguignon (2004) (1)
REJOINDER TO C. STERLIN REGARDING HIS CRITIQUE OF HAITI ET L'AMBIVALENCE SOCIALISEE: UNE RE CONSIDERATION (Haiti and Socialized Ambivalence) by ERIKA BOURGUIGNON. Transcultural Psychiatric Research 9 (1972): 156-57 (1973) (1)
Critique of the Anthropology of Religion (1995) (1)
Walking with Ghosts: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna (1999) (1)
Reinterpretation and the Mechanisms of Culture Change (1954) (1)
General and Theoretical: Sociotherapy and Psychotherapy. MARSHALL EDELSON (1973) (0)
Tree on hillside (1947) (0)
Class Structure and Acculturation in Haiti Bourguignon (2017) (0)
Haiti: Furcy (April-June 1948) (1948) (0)
Dream and Culture: An Anthropological Study of the Western Intellectual Tradition. Susan Parman. (1992) (0)
Woman named Josilla with bamboo pole-2 (1947) (0)
Street scene in Miragoâne (1948) (0)
Fonds des Nègres-1 (1948) (0)
Comment on Shaara and Strathern (1993) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Island Possessed. Katherine Dunham (1970) (0)
Cross-cultural Perspectives on Women@@@A World of Women: Anthropological Studies of Women in the Societies of the World.@@@Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives. (1981) (0)
Paul-Henri Bourguignon in Port-au-Prince street (1947) (0)
Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder and Suicide.Luh Ketur Suryani (1994) (0)
The Age of Possession. (1975) (0)
Catholic church-7 (1948) (0)
Breadfruit Tree-4 (1947) (0)
Children in Brache (1947) (0)
House in Miragoâne-5 (1948) (0)
André Destin drawing on balcony of Hotel Excelsior-1 (1947) (0)
General and Theoretical: Ethnopsychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis and Anthropology as Complementary Frames of Reference. George Devereux. (1980) (0)
Paul on balcony of Excelsior Hotel (1947) (0)
Hills near Furcy-10 (1948) (0)
Erika's house in Furcy (1948) (0)
Trance, and the Psychic Unity of Mankind (2008) (0)
Rural hillside-4 (1947) (0)
Possession and Law in Ewe Voodoo. Judy Rosenthal (1999) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The European and the Indian. Hale G. Smith (1957) (0)
Haiti: Art and Artifacts (1947) (0)
CORRESPONDENCE: Power of an Image (2000) (0)
Cut from Whole Cloth: An Immigrant Experience (2005) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Maya Deren (1955) (0)
Women’s Experience: Fantasy and Culture Change (1992) (0)
The Painter's Eye: Paul-Henri Bourguignon's Haitian Photographs (2013) (0)
Cement tombs in Furcy-3 (1948) (0)
Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg. Susan J. Rasmussen (1996) (0)
Paul by house in Brache (1947) (0)
The Paul-Henri and Erika Bourguignon Photographic Archives: Introduction (1947) (0)
View of Furcy (1948) (0)
Who Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? Malinowski, Mead, and The Present State of Anthropology (1988) (0)
: Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England . T. M. Luhrmann. (1990) (0)
Signs of the impending apocalypse (1975) (0)
Tailor shop-1 (1947) (0)
The Bourguignon Photographic Archives Part II: Peru (1948-50) (1948) (0)
Antoinette pounding coffee beans-2 (1947) (0)
Antoinette cooking over charcoal fire-1 (1947) (0)
George E. Simpson's Ideas about Ultimate Reality and Meaning in Haitian Vodun (1980) (0)
Bongo, Backra & Coolie by Jamaican Roots , Kenneth M. Bilby Vodun-Rada Rite for Erzulie by Verna Gillis (2009) (0)
Market near port-1 (1947) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : 1 General and Theoretical Issues (1983) (0)
Road trip: Port-au-Prince to Les Cayes, March 1948 (from field notes) (1948) (0)
Antoinette's cousin, Bonheur (1947) (0)
Bongo, Backra & Coolie@@@Vodun-Rada Rite for Erzulie (1976) (0)
Fishermen on coast of Les Caye (1948) (0)
House in Miragoâne-4 (1948) (0)
More on the Equine Subconscious: Comment on Utley's Comment on Gladwin (1964) (0)
Deprivation and Maternal Care. A Reassessment of Its Effects (1963) (0)
Front of Erika's house (1948) (0)
Hills near Furcy-2 (1948) (0)
Vienna and Memory: Anthropology and (2016) (0)
Erika's neighbor, Antoinette (1947) (0)
Paul in sugar fields (1947) (0)
Ellisande, who came to Brache for vodou celebration (1947) (0)
VIDEOS OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-RELATED PERFORMANCE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Carol Lems-Dworkin, Evanston, Ill.:Lems-Dworkin Publishers 1996, xx-331pp. (1999) (0)
TRANCE AND POSSESSION STATES, edited by Raymond Prince, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Montreal : R. M. Bucke Memorial Society, 1968. 200 pp. Reviewed by Frances Henry, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, McGill University (1969) (0)
Carpenter's products near harbor-2 (1947) (0)
Markets and the role of women in Haitian society (1947) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : ECSTACY AND HEALING IN NEPAL: AN ETHNOPSYCHI- ATRIC STUDY OF TAMANG SHAMANISM by LARRY PETERS. Malibu: Undena Publications, 1981. $15.50. 179 pages (1983) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : 8 North America (1982) (0)
Street crowd watching masked performer (1947) (0)
Abstracts and Reviews : THE PASSION OF ANSEL BOURNE / MULTIPLE PERSON ALITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE by MICHAEL G. KENNY. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. $24.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper), 250 pages (1987) (0)
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures, and Environments (review) (2000) (0)
Catholic church in Miragoâne (1948) (0)
General and Theoretical: Socialization as Cultural Communication: Development of a Theme in the Work of Margaret Mead. Theodore Schwartz, ed (1978) (0)
People dancing around maypole (1948) (0)
Antoinette's daughter, Alta Grace (1947) (0)
Interview of Erika Bourguignon by Gay Hadley (2014) (0)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Culture in Context: Selected Writings of Weston La Barre. Weston La Barre (1981) (0)
Carnival troupe in Mexican hats (1947) (0)
Paul outside Port-au-Prince-1 (1948) (0)
Comment on Fernandez Review (1968) (0)
Sex Roles: Evolution or Revolution? (1971) (0)
Looking backward : Thirty years of research in the anthropology of consciousness (2017) (0)
Two women dressed as Gede spirits (1947) (0)
Paul standing in front of tomb (1948) (0)

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