Animism beyond the Soul : : Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge / / ed. by Katherine Swancutt, Mireille Mazard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Brightman, Marc,; Espírito Santo, Diana,; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa,; Mazard, Mireille,; Richardson, Kathleen,; Swancutt, Katherine,; Turner, Edith,; Ulturgasheva, Olga,; Willerslev, Rane,
• HerausgeberIn: Mazard, Mireille,; Swancutt, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Social Analysis ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate—Is Reconciliation Possible? --; Introduction Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul --; Chapter 1 The Algebra of Souls Ontological Multiplicity and the Transformation of Animism in Southwest China --; Chapter 2 Recursivity and the Self-Reflexive Cosmos Tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian Spirit Mediumship Practices --; Chapter 3 Spirit of the Future Movement, Kinetic Distribution, and Personhood among Siberian Eveny --; Chapter 4 The Art of Capture Hidden Jokes and the Reinvention of Animistic Ontologies in Southwest China --; Chapter 5 Narratives of the Invisible Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia --; Chapter 6 Technological Animism The Uncanny Personhood of Humanoid Machines --; Postscript Anthropologists and Healers—Radical Empiricists --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785338670; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785338670?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Katherine Swancutt, Mireille Mazard.

How might we envision animism through the lens of the ‘anthropology of anthropology’? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors. They explore how native epistemologies, which inform anthropological notions during fieldwork, underpin the dialogues between researchers and their participants. In doing so, the contributors reveal ways in which indigenous thinkers might be influenced by anthropological concepts of the soul and, equally, how they might subtly or dramatically then transform those same concepts within anthropological theory.