New Age paradigm and quantum anthropology.

Abstract

An emphasize will be put on the interaction between informant and ethnographer in reversible teacher---student roles. A further emphasize will be the symbolic aspect of the New Age in a specific historical and social situation. This project offers a problem oriented approach in which categories and definitions emerge during the dialogue with informants in the field. Differences between mainstream and New Age environments will be worked out during the dialogue. The emerging New Age is based on the specific philosophical-scientific basis of quantum physics which provides a language that allows the crossing of barriers between disciplines and social boundaries. This is the context in which a New Paradigm is being negotiated. Participants of the New Age realm are presented as an interest group loosely held together by shared experiences and insights. The primary concerns, such as health e.g., have been negotiated between informant and ethnographer and will serve as the defining categories for the New Age realm.