Istvan Praet
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 224720 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Istvan Praet |
| NOMBRES | Istvan |
| APELLIDO | Praet |
| FIRMA | PRAET I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2810-3266 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Global Biosphere and Its Metaphysical Underpinnings
The term biosphere designates the “zone of life” on Earth. Outside this sphere, everything becomes “alien.” In this view of things, which I take to be canonical in the modern West, terrestrial life and biosphere overlap more or less neatly. Yet this idea of an almost perfect convergence is not the only view possible. This study presents two anthropological cases which demonstrate, a contrario, that the modern tendency to envisage the biosphere as…
Convergence en astrobiologie. Expérimentation contrefactuelle dans les sciences et les arts
La cosmologie moderne repose sur un choix métaphysique assez particulier : elle privilégie la divergence sur la convergence. Les biologistes sont fascinés par la diversité des formes de vie - la « biodiversité », comme ils l'appellent. Les scientifiques planétaires sont également intrigués par la grande variété de corps célestes : naines jaunes, géantes gazeuses, planètes rocheuses, lunes, astéroïdes... Cependant, un contre-courant métaphysique e…
Animal Killing and Postdomestic Meat Production
Astrobiology and the Ultraviolet World
Astrobiology is normally envisaged as the scientific endeavor preoccupied with the search for life beyond Earth. What remains underappreciated, however, is that it is also a hotbed of transversal thinking. It links disciplines that have historically grown up in isolation from each other-such as solar physics, atmospheric science, dermatology, and ophthalmology (eye biology)-in remarkable ways. And even though these links may cast new light on the…
Meat traditions. The co-evolution of humans and meat
La lune de Saturne et le « nous » œcuménique. Entre astrobiologie et anthropologie
Cet article aborde l'exploration spatiale d'un point de vue anthropologique en privilégiant avant tout le domaine de l'astrobiologie et, plus particulièrement, les recherches menées aujourd'hui sur Titan, la plus grande lune de Saturne. Titan constitue l'un des sujets favoris des astrobiologistes : cette lune possède en effet toute une série de caractéristiques, parmi lesquelles une atmosphère très dense, qui lui confèrent un étrange air de famil…
The Positional Quality of Life and Death
This article examines human-animal relations in animism. Ethnographies of indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, and Africa are compared in order to provide a basic sketch of the remarkable consistency of animism across the world. A central feature that recurs time and again is the positional quality of life and death. That is, life and death are not conceived of as inherent properties but as changeable positions. This is why indigenous hunter…
Identité, cosmologie et chamanisme des Tsachila de l'Équateur
Book review of Montserrat Ventura i Oller. Forward by Jean-Pierre Chaumeil. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2009. 286 pp. € 26.00 (paperback) ISBN 2296098363
Ventura i Oller Montserrat, Identité, cosmologie et chamanisme des Tsachila de l'Équateur
Dans cet excellent livre, Montserrat Ventura i Oller entame une recherche sur une société à la croisée de deux mondes qui fascinent les ethnologues américanistes depuis longtemps : les civilisations andines et les sociétés « sauvages » des Basses Terres. Bien que, dans quelques travaux récents, les relations entre les sociétés des Hautes Terres et celles des Basses Terres de l’Amérique du Sud aient été examinées, il n’existe à ce jour que peu d’a…
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis. A question that has intrigued anthropologists for a long time is why catastrophic anxieties are so omnipresent among Amerindian peoples. Known in the literature as « millenarianism », fears of an apocalypse appear time and again, both in lowland and highland South America. This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon by examining notions of metamorphosis or…
Shamanism and ritual in South America
Using ethnographic material on the Chachi, an Amerindian group in Northwest Ecuador, this article attempts to develop a renewed understanding of shamanism and ritual among so-called 'indigenous peoples' in South America, in both lowland and highland areas. I show that the human domain and that of spirits are always equivalent. It is also suggested that shamanic curing and many other forms of ritual can fruitfully be understood as instances of met…
People into Ghosts
This article deals with the corporeality of the dead in native South American societies. Focusing on the Chachi of Northwest Ecuador, I question whether the separation of the dead from the living is best analyzed in terms of the lack of a body. While relevant in most ordinary circumstances, the division between having or not having a body hampers ourcapacitytounderstandcrisissituations,especiallywhensomebodydies. I then turn to the particular rol…
Meat traditions. The co-evolution of humans and meat
Shamanism and ritual in South America
Using ethnographic material on the Chachi, an Amerindian group in Northwest Ecuador, this article attempts to develop a renewed understanding of shamanism and ritual among so-called 'indigenous peoples' in South America, in both lowland and highland areas. I show that the human domain and that of spirits are always equivalent. It is also suggested that shamanic curing and many other forms of ritual can fruitfully be understood as instances of met…
Animal Killing and Postdomestic Meat Production
Convergence en astrobiologie. Expérimentation contrefactuelle dans les sciences et les arts
La cosmologie moderne repose sur un choix métaphysique assez particulier : elle privilégie la divergence sur la convergence. Les biologistes sont fascinés par la diversité des formes de vie - la « biodiversité », comme ils l'appellent. Les scientifiques planétaires sont également intrigués par la grande variété de corps célestes : naines jaunes, géantes gazeuses, planètes rocheuses, lunes, astéroïdes... Cependant, un contre-courant métaphysique e…
La lune de Saturne et le « nous » œcuménique. Entre astrobiologie et anthropologie
Cet article aborde l'exploration spatiale d'un point de vue anthropologique en privilégiant avant tout le domaine de l'astrobiologie et, plus particulièrement, les recherches menées aujourd'hui sur Titan, la plus grande lune de Saturne. Titan constitue l'un des sujets favoris des astrobiologistes : cette lune possède en effet toute une série de caractéristiques, parmi lesquelles une atmosphère très dense, qui lui confèrent un étrange air de famil…
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis. A question that has intrigued anthropologists for a long time is why catastrophic anxieties are so omnipresent among Amerindian peoples. Known in the literature as « millenarianism », fears of an apocalypse appear time and again, both in lowland and highland South America. This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon by examining notions of metamorphosis or…
Astrobiology and the Ultraviolet World
Astrobiology is normally envisaged as the scientific endeavor preoccupied with the search for life beyond Earth. What remains underappreciated, however, is that it is also a hotbed of transversal thinking. It links disciplines that have historically grown up in isolation from each other-such as solar physics, atmospheric science, dermatology, and ophthalmology (eye biology)-in remarkable ways. And even though these links may cast new light on the…
The Positional Quality of Life and Death
This article examines human-animal relations in animism. Ethnographies of indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, and Africa are compared in order to provide a basic sketch of the remarkable consistency of animism across the world. A central feature that recurs time and again is the positional quality of life and death. That is, life and death are not conceived of as inherent properties but as changeable positions. This is why indigenous hunter…
People into Ghosts
This article deals with the corporeality of the dead in native South American societies. Focusing on the Chachi of Northwest Ecuador, I question whether the separation of the dead from the living is best analyzed in terms of the lack of a body. While relevant in most ordinary circumstances, the division between having or not having a body hampers ourcapacitytounderstandcrisissituations,especiallywhensomebodydies. I then turn to the particular rol…
People into Ghosts
This article deals with the corporeality of the dead in native South American societies. Focusing on the Chachi of Northwest Ecuador, I question whether the separation of the dead from the living is best analyzed in terms of the lack of a body. While relevant in most ordinary circumstances, the division between having or not having a body hampers ourcapacitytounderstandcrisissituations,especiallywhensomebodydies. I then turn to the particular rol…
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis. A question that has intrigued anthropologists for a long time is why catastrophic anxieties are so omnipresent among Amerindian peoples. Known in the literature as « millenarianism », fears of an apocalypse appear time and again, both in lowland and highland South America. This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon by examining notions of metamorphosis or…
Shamanism and ritual in South America
Using ethnographic material on the Chachi, an Amerindian group in Northwest Ecuador, this article attempts to develop a renewed understanding of shamanism and ritual among so-called 'indigenous peoples' in South America, in both lowland and highland areas. I show that the human domain and that of spirits are always equivalent. It is also suggested that shamanic curing and many other forms of ritual can fruitfully be understood as instances of met…
Ventura i Oller Montserrat, Identité, cosmologie et chamanisme des Tsachila de l'Équateur
Dans cet excellent livre, Montserrat Ventura i Oller entame une recherche sur une société à la croisée de deux mondes qui fascinent les ethnologues américanistes depuis longtemps : les civilisations andines et les sociétés « sauvages » des Basses Terres. Bien que, dans quelques travaux récents, les relations entre les sociétés des Hautes Terres et celles des Basses Terres de l’Amérique du Sud aient été examinées, il n’existe à ce jour que peu d’a…
Identité, cosmologie et chamanisme des Tsachila de l'Équateur
Book review of Montserrat Ventura i Oller. Forward by Jean-Pierre Chaumeil. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2009. 286 pp. € 26.00 (paperback) ISBN 2296098363
The Positional Quality of Life and Death
This article examines human-animal relations in animism. Ethnographies of indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, and Africa are compared in order to provide a basic sketch of the remarkable consistency of animism across the world. A central feature that recurs time and again is the positional quality of life and death. That is, life and death are not conceived of as inherent properties but as changeable positions. This is why indigenous hunter…
Meat traditions. The co-evolution of humans and meat
La lune de Saturne et le « nous » œcuménique. Entre astrobiologie et anthropologie
Cet article aborde l'exploration spatiale d'un point de vue anthropologique en privilégiant avant tout le domaine de l'astrobiologie et, plus particulièrement, les recherches menées aujourd'hui sur Titan, la plus grande lune de Saturne. Titan constitue l'un des sujets favoris des astrobiologistes : cette lune possède en effet toute une série de caractéristiques, parmi lesquelles une atmosphère très dense, qui lui confèrent un étrange air de famil…
Animal Killing and Postdomestic Meat Production
Astrobiology and the Ultraviolet World
Astrobiology is normally envisaged as the scientific endeavor preoccupied with the search for life beyond Earth. What remains underappreciated, however, is that it is also a hotbed of transversal thinking. It links disciplines that have historically grown up in isolation from each other-such as solar physics, atmospheric science, dermatology, and ophthalmology (eye biology)-in remarkable ways. And even though these links may cast new light on the…
Convergence en astrobiologie. Expérimentation contrefactuelle dans les sciences et les arts
La cosmologie moderne repose sur un choix métaphysique assez particulier : elle privilégie la divergence sur la convergence. Les biologistes sont fascinés par la diversité des formes de vie - la « biodiversité », comme ils l'appellent. Les scientifiques planétaires sont également intrigués par la grande variété de corps célestes : naines jaunes, géantes gazeuses, planètes rocheuses, lunes, astéroïdes... Cependant, un contre-courant métaphysique e…
The Global Biosphere and Its Metaphysical Underpinnings
The term biosphere designates the “zone of life” on Earth. Outside this sphere, everything becomes “alien.” In this view of things, which I take to be canonical in the modern West, terrestrial life and biosphere overlap more or less neatly. Yet this idea of an almost perfect convergence is not the only view possible. This study presents two anthropological cases which demonstrate, a contrario, that the modern tendency to envisage the biosphere as…
Art (4 obras) · Biology (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (4 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Humanities (3 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 obras)