Abstract:
This issue of LAJ consists of seven articles:
Culture shock in paradise by Ellen Rhoads Holmes; Attainment of higher states of consciousness by natural means (North America: The vision quest of the Sioux; Indian: Transcendental meditation of the Vedic tradition) by Robert S. Milota; Smiles on faces and thumbs in the bread: self-esteem maintenance in a service occupation by Sherri Dawson; Psychology and biochemistry in the shamanic world by John Damrose; Female circumcision in two contexts by Lori L. Jervis; A possible historical basis for La llorna legend by George A. Agogino; and Two perspectives on the etiology of pibloktoq by Janet Lister.
