Introduction to Post-Social Anthropology

Networks, multiplicities, and symmetrizations

Bibliographic Data

ID2434977
AuthorsEduardo Batalha Viveiros De Castro (0000-0003-4902-0574, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author), Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Marcio Goldman (0000-0001-6594-1520, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Year2012
Volume2
Issue1
Pages421-433
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14318/hau2.1.018
OpenAlexW1551727327
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited17

This course will begin, then, with two negative observations: why aren't Africanist models applicable to New Guinea? And why are they not applicable in South America? The first statement was made, somewhat unwillingly, by John Barnes, in the 1960s; the second, by Joanna Overing, in the 1970s. But these two negative inquiries hide something positive, to wit, the resistance that ethnography can present to theoretical models in vogue. It is in this sense, I think, that Strathern affirms that there still exist realities that are sufficiently exterior to us to support us in overcoming our own thought. This "other," which should be extirpated, reformed, or explained, is converted into a necessary point of support so that our thought can work and, as a result, be modified in the process

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