One world anthropology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2226263
AutoresT Ingold (0000-0001-6703-6137, University of Aberdeen, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume8
Fascículo1-2
Páginas158-171
Data de publicação2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/698315
OpenAlexW2804819098
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas53
Referências citadas10

Anthropology is a philosophical inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of life in the one world we all inhabit. That this world is indeed one is a core principle of the discipline. By exploring the relation between the particular life and life-as-a-whole, I show how the latter can be understood as a correspondence in which lives are not added together but carry on alongside one another. Life itself, then, is not the summation but the correspondence of its particulars. Comparing ideas of the self and the soul, founded respectively in regimes of naturalism and animism, I show how correspondence proceeds through a process of interstitial differentiation, in which agency is inside action rather than in front of it. This calls for a "turn" that is not ontological but ontogenetic, leading us to conceive of the one world as neither a universe nor a fractiverse but as a pluriverse

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Animism · Epistemology · Naturalism · Philosophical anthropology · Relation (database · Sociology · Soul · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy