Encountering being, identity, and otherness

Reconsidering Guimarães’s ‘‘Amerindian anthropology and cultural psychology’’ and Amerindian perspectivism, with insights from anthropology of religion, African humanities, and collaborative ethnography

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18978643
AutoresSusan J Rasmussen (University of Houston, autor correspondente), Susan Rasmussen (0000-0001-6408-0028, University of Houston)
Ano2011
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas159-176
Data de publicação2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1354067x11400953
OpenAlexW2108994832
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas28

Images of self and other are best understood not as static categories, but as fluid and dynamic negotiations in cultural encounters and transformations. In numerous cultural expressive contexts, such as animism, totemism, cosmology/philosophy, myth, and symbol, motifs represent what it means to exist, of ‘‘being’’ in this world, in likeness and difference, and encounters with other worlds: for example, human/animal relationships, time and space travel, and shape-shifting. How do anthropologists and local residents find epistemological and ontological common ground for mutual understanding? The challenge is to elicit local intellectual perspectives without imposing the researcher’s own categories. This commentary introduces comparative ethnographic findings in humanistic anthropology, with a special focus on African humanities, to open up perspectives on Amerindian perspectivism, the topic of Guimarães’s (2011) essay

Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Humanities · Linguistics · Perspectivism · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity