section_path: Key topics by field: sociocultural/Medical, nutritional, psychological, cognitive and transpersonal/Transpersonal
section_name: Transpersonal
paragraph_text: Transpersonal
  
  Transpersonal anthropology studies the relationship between altered states of consciousness and culture. As with transpersonal psychology, the field is much concerned with altered states of consciousness (ASC) and transpersonal experience. However, the field differs from mainstream transpersonal psychology in taking more cognizance of cross-cultural issues – for instance, the roles of myth, ritual, diet, and text in evoking and interpreting extraordinary experiences.