Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you think positively, so the reasoning goes, you will live a better life. Self-help gurus and guides…
Susannah Crockford
Susannah Crockford is an anthropologist at the University of Exeter, where she researches cultural understandings of medicine, environment, and religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press, and her second monograph, A Perturbed System: Ethnographic Fragments from the End of a World, is in preparation for the same publisher. She is the editor of Fieldwork in Religion. This publication was made possible through the support of grant #63243 from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow on BlueSky: @suscrockford.bsky.social.
