Dr Jadran Mimica
Senior Lecturer
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Research areas
Melanesian life worlds; Comparative ethnographic areas (specifically Amazonia, Melanesia, Aboriginal Australia)
Jungian psychology, psychoanalysis, genetic epistemology, cognitive psychology,
cognitive and neuro-sciences;
dynamics of imagination; gestalt-organismic theories of perception and cognition;
dynamic eidetics (morphogenesis) of cognition as the basis for an anthropology of human noetic powers and activity;
Traditional and scientific cosmologies, modes of thought and experience of the world;
development and the cultural foundations of mathematics;
Philosophy: phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, philosophy and history of Science; philosophical anthropology; comparative philosophy; philosophy of history; Neo-Platonism, Mediaeval philosophy
Comparative religion and theology; Comparative mysticism; Gnosticism;
Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism; shamanism and initiations
Linguistics: Papuan, South American Indian languages;
Poetic-imaginal and cognitive basis of grammar; morphogenesis of language
Kinship semantics, the constitution of egocentric and sociocentric modes of kin and social classification social morphology and the eidetic (morphogenetic) processes that constitute human social fields
Sexuality and gender
Selected Recent Publications
- 2008 Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography. Edited by Jadran Mimica. New York and London: Berghahn. Also published as a special issue of Social Analysis:The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 50(2) 2006.
- 2008 Descended from the Celestial Rope: From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self. Ch 4 in J. Mimica, ed. Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography. Also published in Social Analysis, 50(2) 2006:78-105
- 2010 Flying Away Like a Bird: An Instance of Severance from the Parental Abode (Iwolaqamalycaane, Yagwoia, Papua New Guinea). Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, 130-131 (December):67-78
- 2010 Modes of Un/knowing and the Practice of Ethnography: A Reflection on Some Western Cosmo-ontological Categories and their Anthropological Application. Anthropological Theory, 10(3):1-25
- 2009 Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Research. Social Analysis, 53(2):40-59 (Special Issue: What is Happening to Epistemology?)
- 2008 Mother’s Umbilicus and Father’s Spirit: The Dialectics of Selfhood of a Yagwoia Trans-gendered Person. Oceania, 78(2):168-198
- 2006 Dreams, Laki, and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia (PNG) “Inner Feminine”. Part 3: Soul and the Work of Mourning. Oceania, 76(3):265-284
- 2006 Dreams, Laki, and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia (PNG) “Inner Feminine”. Part 2: Soul and the Oneiro-dynamics of Luck. Oceania, 76(2):113-131
- 2006 Dreams, Laki, and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia (PNG) “Inner Feminine”. Part I. Oceania, 76(1):27-60
- 2008 Womb = Tomb = House = Body: Yagwoia Experience of Blissful Self-dissolution. Proceedings of The Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts: The Uses of Subjective Experience. Conference held in Melbourne, 20-21st October 2007. Published in 2008 http://www.anzsja.org.au/subjective_experience/UsesOfSubjectiveExperience.pdf