Dr Jadran Mimica

Senior Lecturer

Room 233
A26 RC Mills Building
+61 2 9351 4112

On leave semester 2, 2009

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