Animism beyond the Soul : : Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge / / 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 an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Social Analysis ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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