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John Leavitt
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Latest funding
- $2,500,000
Franz Boas papers: documentary edition
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
- $43,248
Narrative performance in the Central Himalayas and among Indo-Canadians
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
- $228,600
The work of culture in limit-experiences: spirituality and its shadows
SSHRC · 2003 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Franz Boas papers: documentary edition
Keywords: Franz Boas; history of anthropology; British Columbia ethnology and linguistics; public intellectual; public history; Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl); collaborative anthropology; digital repatriation
Narrative performance in the Central Himalayas and among Indo-Canadians
Principal investigators: Leavitt, John
Keywords: linguistic anthropology; Central Himalayas; South Asia; poetics
The work of culture in limit-experiences: spirituality and its shadows
Principal investigators: Corin, Ellen
Keywords: asceticism; Hinduism; cultural idiom; limit-experience; psychosis
La voie de la spiritualité dans l'élaboration d'expériences-limite en Inde
Principal investigators: Corin, Ellen
Keywords: Spiritualité; culture; représentations et symboles; expériences-limite; hindouisme; articulation de l'expérience; idiomes culturels
Les modalités culturelles de l'articulation de situations et d'expériences limites (Indo-canadiens, Afro-canadiens, Inde et Brésil)
Principal investigators: Corin, Ellen
Keywords: expérience limite; rites; possession; extase; psychose; identité; migration; religion
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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