{"id":10444,"date":"2016-06-19T01:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/then-i-knew-the-africans-were-right-there-is\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T01:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:58:41","slug":"then-i-knew-the-africans-were-right-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/then-i-knew-the-africans-were-right-there-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Then I knew the Africans were right. There is spirit stuff. There is spirit affliction; it is not a matter of metaphor and symbol, or even psychology. And I began to see how anthropologists have perpetuated an endless series of put-downs about the many spirit events in which they participated\u2014&quot;participated&quot; in a kindly pretense. They might have obtained valuable material, but they have been operating with the wrong paradigm, that of the positivists\u2019 denial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamanism.org\/articles\/article02.html\">Edith Turner<\/a> in\u00a0<i>Shamanism<\/i>, Spring\/Summer 1997, Vol. 10, No. 1.\u00a0The Reality of Spirits\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.virginia.edu\/faculty\/profile\/elt9w\">Edith Turner<\/a>\u00a0passed away today, she was 95.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hTBmhP3P-gI&amp;sns=fb\">Celebrating the Works of Edith \u201cEdie\u201d Turner<\/a>\u00a0Youtube video<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then I knew the Africans were right. There is spirit stuff. There is spirit affliction; it is not a matter of metaphor and symbol, or even psychology. And I began to see how anthropologists have perpetuated an endless series of put-downs about the many spirit events in which they participated\u2014&quot;participated&quot; in a kindly pretense. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}