Neo-shamanism is a largely unexplored spiritual practice among Western peoples that, by virtue of its queerness, has pressing implications for archaeologists. In their practices, Druidic neo-shamans increasingly make pilgrimages to ancient sites and express strong views on the socio-politics of their presentation and management. Rather than avoid the ‘fringe’ and dismiss these engagements with ...

Themes of Self-Laceration Towards a Modicum of Control in Nineteenth Century Russia as Expressed by Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov The majority of the academic discourse surrounding Dostoevsky and his epic, The Brothers Karamazov, has been directed toward the philosophic and religious implications of his characters. Largely overlooked, however, is the theme of laceration. In the greater s...

Anscombe distinguishes two notions of “self-conscious”: the philosophical notion, which refers to special form awareness one has oneself as oneself, and ordinary we employ when speak “feeling self-conscious before another”. My aim in this paper is show that self-consciousness cannot be understood terms either forms intersubjective relation standardly acknowledged literature. It reductively, psy...