M Palmeirim
Biographic Data
| ID | 18610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Palmeirim |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmeirim |
| SIGNATURE | PALMEIRIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5694-0603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Illusion of Reality and the Reality of Illusion
This article reflects on the role of staged and rehearsed performance, trickery, and prestidigitation in ritual, acts that many anthropologists have observed and registered in their ethnographic accounts but most often took to be fraud, and consequently were discarded from their analyses and interpretations. The curative episode narrated here as a point of departure was intentionally arranged beforehand by the practitioners to make-believe. It is…
Do “Culture Heroes” Exist? A Dialogue With Luc de Heusch on the Limits of the Structuralist Approach to Myth
This article argues the inadequacy of the structuralist framework of analysis as applied to Central African myths of foundation and tries to demonstrate that a dichotomous approach can inhibit the full understanding of these narratives, often misrepresenting and curtailing their meaning. Instead, it is claimed that blurredness, ambiguity, “consubstantiality,” and fluidity are, in Central Africa, the assortment of logical and symbolic instruments …
Discourse on the invisible
This article argues that, in the African contexts analysed, discourse on sorcery, healing, and the so-called 'world of the invisible' should be read as 'theories' or 'philosophies' of knowledge rather than as a set of 'beliefs' in mystical and transcendental powers. Furthermore, it aims to demonstrate that these theories do not follow the Cartesian dualism embedded in much Western philosophical thought (also a legacy of Plato), which mistrusted s…
Paradoxos, fluidez e ambiguidade do pensamento simbólico (o caso ruwund)
O conceito de “versões” ou “variantes” tem-se afirmado crucial na análise das tradições orais. Contudo, o uso das versões como textos “fechados” e “delimitáveis” conduz, quando falamos das tradições centro-africanas de fundação do Estado, à emergência de contradições desconcertantes e aparentemente irresolúveis. Os historiadores africanistas crêem-nas passíveis de serem questionadas quanto à sua veracidade; os estruturalistas reduzem-nas a opos…
Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity
September 01 2008 Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity: Dialogues Between Verbal and Visual Arts Manuela Palmeirim Manuela Palmeirim Manuela Palmeirim is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minho, Portugal, and has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Aruwund (Lunda) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on foundation myths and kingship ideology. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Sónia Silva. Vidas em Jogo
Há várias e boas razões para se gostar do livro de Sónia Silva, Vidas em Jogo. Esta obra leva-nos ao universo da adivinhação, num contexto que é o dos refugiados angolanos no noroeste da Zâmbia (área luvale), através de um estilo narrativo que recria o cenário de um "diário" de campo, onde a informação etnográfica flui sem percalços, aparentemente alheada de modelos interpretativos e poupada a preciosismos académicos (em grande parte remetidos pa…
Discourse on the invisible
This article argues that, in the African contexts analysed, discourse on sorcery, healing, and the so-called 'world of the invisible' should be read as 'theories' or 'philosophies' of knowledge rather than as a set of 'beliefs' in mystical and transcendental powers. Furthermore, it aims to demonstrate that these theories do not follow the Cartesian dualism embedded in much Western philosophical thought (also a legacy of Plato), which mistrusted s…
Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity
September 01 2008 Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity: Dialogues Between Verbal and Visual Arts Manuela Palmeirim Manuela Palmeirim Manuela Palmeirim is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minho, Portugal, and has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Aruwund (Lunda) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on foundation myths and kingship ideology. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Sónia Silva. Vidas em Jogo
Há várias e boas razões para se gostar do livro de Sónia Silva, Vidas em Jogo. Esta obra leva-nos ao universo da adivinhação, num contexto que é o dos refugiados angolanos no noroeste da Zâmbia (área luvale), através de um estilo narrativo que recria o cenário de um "diário" de campo, onde a informação etnográfica flui sem percalços, aparentemente alheada de modelos interpretativos e poupada a preciosismos académicos (em grande parte remetidos pa…
Paradoxos, fluidez e ambiguidade do pensamento simbólico (o caso ruwund)
O conceito de “versões” ou “variantes” tem-se afirmado crucial na análise das tradições orais. Contudo, o uso das versões como textos “fechados” e “delimitáveis” conduz, quando falamos das tradições centro-africanas de fundação do Estado, à emergência de contradições desconcertantes e aparentemente irresolúveis. Os historiadores africanistas crêem-nas passíveis de serem questionadas quanto à sua veracidade; os estruturalistas reduzem-nas a opos…
Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity
September 01 2008 Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity: Dialogues Between Verbal and Visual Arts Manuela Palmeirim Manuela Palmeirim Manuela Palmeirim is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minho, Portugal, and has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Aruwund (Lunda) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on foundation myths and kingship ideology. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Discourse on the invisible
This article argues that, in the African contexts analysed, discourse on sorcery, healing, and the so-called 'world of the invisible' should be read as 'theories' or 'philosophies' of knowledge rather than as a set of 'beliefs' in mystical and transcendental powers. Furthermore, it aims to demonstrate that these theories do not follow the Cartesian dualism embedded in much Western philosophical thought (also a legacy of Plato), which mistrusted s…
Do “Culture Heroes” Exist? A Dialogue With Luc de Heusch on the Limits of the Structuralist Approach to Myth
This article argues the inadequacy of the structuralist framework of analysis as applied to Central African myths of foundation and tries to demonstrate that a dichotomous approach can inhibit the full understanding of these narratives, often misrepresenting and curtailing their meaning. Instead, it is claimed that blurredness, ambiguity, “consubstantiality,” and fluidity are, in Central Africa, the assortment of logical and symbolic instruments …
The Illusion of Reality and the Reality of Illusion
This article reflects on the role of staged and rehearsed performance, trickery, and prestidigitation in ritual, acts that many anthropologists have observed and registered in their ethnographic accounts but most often took to be fraud, and consequently were discarded from their analyses and interpretations. The curative episode narrated here as a point of departure was intentionally arranged beforehand by the practitioners to make-believe. It is…
African history and culture studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)