Re-Creating Anthropology
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9781003273615 |
| Open Library | OL26521346W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2022 - 2022 |
| Language | EN |
‘Not an Airy European Fantasy’ or How (De)Colonization Embeds the Anthropological Imagination
This chapter looks with suspicion at the modernist portrayal of the imagination as a unique human capacity to imagine and change social institutions. Instead of opposing mind and matter, or invoking a centuries-old utopian tradition (and the suffering it brought), I explore anthropology’s ‘imaginations’ in a critical ‘decolonizing’ register: firstly, the ways in which ‘imagination’ could criticize core concepts of modernity (the nation-state and …
‘She Talks to Angels
This chapter attempts to develop the foundations of a methodology for a comparative perspective on spirit possession and related experiences. I examine the emergence of the Archangel Metatron and his role in a Roman Catholic exorcism and in the life of Maria, a person possessed by the devil. A focus on how spirits emerge through possession offers a useful path to comparison and a practice-based approach to cosmological beings. I contend that crea…
Afterword
This Afterword argues that the major themes of the volume encompass (1) the historical and contemporary imaginaries of the colonial and postcolonial eras; (2) the ways in which humans imagine that which seems frightening and alien; (3) the creative ways in which ‘dreams’ are converted into reality; and (4) the manner in which individuals fill in the ‘gaps’ and manage to communicate or, at least, come to understand other human beings and their env…
Re-Creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination
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Re-Creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination
‘Not an Airy European Fantasy’ or How (De)Colonization Embeds the Anthropological Imagination
This chapter looks with suspicion at the modernist portrayal of the imagination as a unique human capacity to imagine and change social institutions. Instead of opposing mind and matter, or invoking a centuries-old utopian tradition (and the suffering it brought), I explore anthropology’s ‘imaginations’ in a critical ‘decolonizing’ register: firstly, the ways in which ‘imagination’ could criticize core concepts of modernity (the nation-state and …
‘She Talks to Angels
This chapter attempts to develop the foundations of a methodology for a comparative perspective on spirit possession and related experiences. I examine the emergence of the Archangel Metatron and his role in a Roman Catholic exorcism and in the life of Maria, a person possessed by the devil. A focus on how spirits emerge through possession offers a useful path to comparison and a practice-based approach to cosmological beings. I contend that crea…
Afterword
This Afterword argues that the major themes of the volume encompass (1) the historical and contemporary imaginaries of the colonial and postcolonial eras; (2) the ways in which humans imagine that which seems frightening and alien; (3) the creative ways in which ‘dreams’ are converted into reality; and (4) the manner in which individuals fill in the ‘gaps’ and manage to communicate or, at least, come to understand other human beings and their env…