
Erika Bourguignon
1924 – 2015
10 works on record
Biography
ERIKA BOURGUIGNON (1924–2015) was professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at The Ohio State University, where she taught for more than 40 years. She is best known for her contributions to psychological anthropology, anthropology of religion, and the anthropology of women.
Bourguignon published seven books and hundreds of professional articles about a variety of subjects such as altered states of consciousness, trance, vodou, religion, social change, women’s roles, the Holocaust, and memory studies.
Works

A World of women

Possession

Religion, altered states of consciousness, and social change

Diversity and homogeneity in world societies

Psychological anthropology
Margaret Mead, the anthropologist in America
Margaret Mead, the anthropologist in America
A cross-cultural study of dissociational states
A cross-cultural study of dissociational states
Diversity and homogeneity
Diversity and homogeneity
Trance dance
Trance dance
Culture and the varieties of consciousness
Culture and the varieties of consciousness