Brazilian Serialities

Personhood and Radical Embodied Cognition

Bibliographic Data

ID2224936
AuthorsJ De Pina-Cabral (0000-0002-7180-4407, University of St Andrews, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume57
Issue3
Pages247-260
Publication date2016-06-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/686300
OpenAlexW2336347995
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited59

This paper investigates the relationship between personhood and family in light of the impact that radical embodied cognition has had in anthropological theory over the past years. The paper is based on a study of onomastic seriality among siblings and cohabiting cousins in Brazil, where it became clear that interruption of the series is more common than full compliance. Since name attribution is a central aspect of launching early personal ontogeny, the paper argues that this kind of interrupted seriality amounts to a narrative strategy of triangulation that fosters the creative imagining of familial persons. The paper attempts to deepen our understanding of the modes of operation of personhood by diverging from the established representationist theories of cognition that remain dominant in anthropological circles

Cognition · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Personhood · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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