Samuele Poletti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuele Poletti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuele |
| FAMILY NAME | Poletti |
| SIGNATURE | POLETTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Loving Fathers and Deferential Sons
Because of a dream, my elderly friend Laxmi Narayan was convinced that his son Prithivi was the reincarnation of his late father. Their apparent contentment in not knowing the other's 'inner state' challenges the assumption that coexistence is achieved through empathic approximations. Rather than strive to bridge the gap through a quasi-first-person perspective, this story suggests that Selves and Others can readily do without empathy in their en…
Failures of being
“Being” can be a heavy burden to carry in Sinja, Nepal. The lack of a given self comparable to the Christian soul makes the struggle for being a potentially life-threatening affair, especially when circumstances impede the fulfillment of social expectations. Suicides that flow from the incapacity to embody what a person is socially expected to be illustrate the phenomenological dimension of what “social death” might really mean for people whose b…
Miracles matter and the matter of miracles
Amongst Christian Pentecostal converts in Sinja, Nepal, miracles happen when they recognize narrative moments of the Bible in fortuitous events of their lives. Their engagement with specific Pentecostal technologies of the imagination like reading the Bible and telling one’s conversion narrative to others causes an outburst of the Word into the world, turning Sinjali converts into the truly Christian subjects of the conversion narratives they tel…
A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance
Over the last few decades, Nepal’s Christian population has flourished even in quite remote contexts such as the Sinja Valley, in the north-western district of Jumla. The reasons why people are drawn towards Evangelical Christianity in particular are primarily existential and are intimately related to the problematic situations they are confronted with in their lives, which are rooted in turn in a very specific understanding of personhood. Among …
Blessed by the Lord
Many Christian converts in the Sinja Valley of Jumla, northwest Nepal, reveal that they have been struck by the Bible because it referenced real events, especially miraculous cases of healing. These miraculous events provide tangible 'evidence' of God's power that somewhat replicate the expectations that people nurture with respect to the Hindu deities. In such way, miracles play an especially crucial role in supporting the conversion of women an…
In the Shadows of Death
Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis explores how people in the Sinja Valley of Jumla District (western Nepal) endeavour to make sense of existence through their engagement with mortality. My epistemological approach and the argument I put forwards is framed as a phenomenology of life in the shadows of death. This implies the exploration of how the phenomenon of death ‘appears’ to the consciousness of Sinjali people, contribu…
Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed
This book is a sort of sequel to Fisher’s classic Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society, & Culture in Northwest Nepal (1986). As the title suggests, that particular study centred on the transaction circuits that determined the lives of people living in Tarang, a village in the remote district of Dolpa. After an absence of 44 years, Fisher returned to Tarang in 2011, to trace back over the changes that have taken place since he carried out doc…
The Good, the Dead, and the Other
Is an experience the private matter of an inner individual self? The phantasmicide committed by Laxmi in Sinja, Nepal, with the assistance of his uncle suggests otherwise. The perception of a wandering spirit in Nepal, like that of a dragon in the Middle Ages, demonstrates how subjective experiences may sometimes acquire independence in the blurred margins where reality merges with imagination. This line of reasoning finds support in the indigeno…
The Good, the Dead, and the Other
Is an experience the private matter of an inner individual self? The phantasmicide committed by Laxmi in Sinja, Nepal, with the assistance of his uncle suggests otherwise. The perception of a wandering spirit in Nepal, like that of a dragon in the Middle Ages, demonstrates how subjective experiences may sometimes acquire independence in the blurred margins where reality merges with imagination. This line of reasoning finds support in the indigeno…
Loving Fathers and Deferential Sons
Because of a dream, my elderly friend Laxmi Narayan was convinced that his son Prithivi was the reincarnation of his late father. Their apparent contentment in not knowing the other's 'inner state' challenges the assumption that coexistence is achieved through empathic approximations. Rather than strive to bridge the gap through a quasi-first-person perspective, this story suggests that Selves and Others can readily do without empathy in their en…
In the Shadows of Death
Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis explores how people in the Sinja Valley of Jumla District (western Nepal) endeavour to make sense of existence through their engagement with mortality. My epistemological approach and the argument I put forwards is framed as a phenomenology of life in the shadows of death. This implies the exploration of how the phenomenon of death ‘appears’ to the consciousness of Sinjali people, contribu…
Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed
This book is a sort of sequel to Fisher’s classic Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society, & Culture in Northwest Nepal (1986). As the title suggests, that particular study centred on the transaction circuits that determined the lives of people living in Tarang, a village in the remote district of Dolpa. After an absence of 44 years, Fisher returned to Tarang in 2011, to trace back over the changes that have taken place since he carried out doc…
The Good, the Dead, and the Other
Is an experience the private matter of an inner individual self? The phantasmicide committed by Laxmi in Sinja, Nepal, with the assistance of his uncle suggests otherwise. The perception of a wandering spirit in Nepal, like that of a dragon in the Middle Ages, demonstrates how subjective experiences may sometimes acquire independence in the blurred margins where reality merges with imagination. This line of reasoning finds support in the indigeno…
A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance
Over the last few decades, Nepal’s Christian population has flourished even in quite remote contexts such as the Sinja Valley, in the north-western district of Jumla. The reasons why people are drawn towards Evangelical Christianity in particular are primarily existential and are intimately related to the problematic situations they are confronted with in their lives, which are rooted in turn in a very specific understanding of personhood. Among …
Blessed by the Lord
Many Christian converts in the Sinja Valley of Jumla, northwest Nepal, reveal that they have been struck by the Bible because it referenced real events, especially miraculous cases of healing. These miraculous events provide tangible 'evidence' of God's power that somewhat replicate the expectations that people nurture with respect to the Hindu deities. In such way, miracles play an especially crucial role in supporting the conversion of women an…
Failures of being
“Being” can be a heavy burden to carry in Sinja, Nepal. The lack of a given self comparable to the Christian soul makes the struggle for being a potentially life-threatening affair, especially when circumstances impede the fulfillment of social expectations. Suicides that flow from the incapacity to embody what a person is socially expected to be illustrate the phenomenological dimension of what “social death” might really mean for people whose b…
Miracles matter and the matter of miracles
Amongst Christian Pentecostal converts in Sinja, Nepal, miracles happen when they recognize narrative moments of the Bible in fortuitous events of their lives. Their engagement with specific Pentecostal technologies of the imagination like reading the Bible and telling one’s conversion narrative to others causes an outburst of the Word into the world, turning Sinjali converts into the truly Christian subjects of the conversion narratives they tel…
Loving Fathers and Deferential Sons
Because of a dream, my elderly friend Laxmi Narayan was convinced that his son Prithivi was the reincarnation of his late father. Their apparent contentment in not knowing the other's 'inner state' challenges the assumption that coexistence is achieved through empathic approximations. Rather than strive to bridge the gap through a quasi-first-person perspective, this story suggests that Selves and Others can readily do without empathy in their en…
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Existentialism (3 works) · Personhood (3 works)