Altered states of consciousness within a general evolutionary perspective: a holocultural analysis

Social stratification, jurisdictional hierarchy, economic production, and use of agriculture will be associated with trance type (199-200, 205).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Gamma, Tau-b	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Economic Production	Independent	Production And Supply
Jurisdictional Hierarchy	Independent	Community Councils, Community Heads, Territorial Hierarchy
Social Stratification	Independent	Classes
Trance Type	Dependent	Ecstatic Religious Practices
Use Of Agriculture	Independent	Annual Cycle, Tillage

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Bourguignon, Erika	1976	Possession-trance belief will be associated with jurisdictional hierarchy beyond the local level; possession-belief-only will not (43).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Nielsen, Francois	2004	Subsistence type will be significantly associated with class stratification, jurisdictional hierarchy, inheritance of office of local headman, inheritance of property, presence of games of strategy, and polygyny (299-306).	Supported	7	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Swanson, Guy E.	1978	The number of jurisdictional levels and the type of decision-making will be associated with possession trance (273).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2018	Social stratification and political complexity (representing hierarchy) will be consistent with a model that has landesque capital intensive agriculture as the dependent variable.	Partially Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheehan, Oliver	2018	Landesque capital intensive agriculture (representing general intensive agriculture) will be consistent with a model that has social stratification and political complexity (representing hierarchy) as the dependent variable.	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author