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  • The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate
  • Introduction
  • The Algebra of Souls
  • Recursivity and the Self-Reflexive Cosmos
  • Spirit of the Future
  • The Art of Capture
  • Narratives of the Invisible
  • Technological Animism
  • Anthropologists and Healers
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Introduction

Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul

Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard

Keywords: animism; anthropology; ethnographic gaze; hyper-reflexivity; metamorphosis; ontology; reflexivity; soul

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Published (Print):
01 Mar 2016
Article Type:
Introduction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2016.600102
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1–17

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  • The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate
  • Introduction
  • The Algebra of Souls
  • Recursivity and the Self-Reflexive Cosmos
  • Spirit of the Future
  • The Art of Capture
  • Narratives of the Invisible
  • Technological Animism
  • Anthropologists and Healers
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Social Analysis

Social Analysis

The International Journal of Anthropology

Editor: Martin Holbraad, University College London


Volume 63 / 2019, 4 issues per volume (spring, summer, autumn, winter)

Subjects: Anthropology, Political and Social Theory, Social Sciences


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  • Foreword
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    The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate: Is Reconciliation Possible?
    Rane Willerslev
  • Introduction
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    Introduction: Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul
    Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard
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    The Algebra of Souls: Ontological Multiplicity and the Transformation of Animism in Southwest China
    Mireille Mazard
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    Recursivity and the Self-Reflexive Cosmos: Tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian Spirit Mediumship Practices
    Diana Espírito Santo
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    Spirit of the Future: Movement, Kinetic Distribution, and Personhood among Siberian Eveny
    Olga Ulturgasheva
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    The Art of Capture: Hidden Jokes and the Reinvention of Animistic Ontologies in Southwest China
    Katherine Swancutt
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    Narratives of the Invisible: Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia
    Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Marc Brightman
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    Technological Animism: The Uncanny Personhood of Humanoid Machines
    Kathleen Richardson
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    Anthropologists and Healers: Radical Empiricists
    Edith Turner
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