Hi Goesh,
Maybe it's just Anthro, but I've been at defense where sweetgrass has been burned .
Yup - "been there, done that".
One of the things that a lot of Anthropologists have done in the past is just that. It doesn't really show up much in the formal literature of the discipline but, get a bunch of us together with a plentiful suppl of our favorite potables, sit back and listen to the stories.
A lot of us have done things, and seen things, that would fry most Westerners brains. We don't talk about it, usually, because it is almost impossible to talk about it with people who haven't experienced similar things - they are just too freaky. And, as an FYI, while I didn't burn sweetgrass at either my MA or PhD defenses, I was wearing a particular ring....
Marc
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