Author : Katherine Swancutt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338676
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Book Synopsis Animism beyond the Soul by : Katherine Swancutt
Download or read book Animism beyond the Soul written by Katherine Swancutt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.