What Holds People Together? First-Person Anthropology and Perspective-Taking in Thai Ghost Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2263648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Carlisle, Steven G Carlisle (0009-0001-0443-6093, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-81 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/etho.12072 |
| OpenAlex | W1901743085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
What allows people to share cultural realities? Many theories imply that people orient themselves directly to abstract cultural structures or toward a set of powerful discourses which shape them. But because cultural worlds are understood practically and experienced and communicated through first-person perspectives, people must engage in empathicperspective taking-orienting themselves toward one another's perspectives-instead. This article explores idiosyncratic Thai interpretations of ghost attacks, shaped by individual and institutionalized experiences. By focusing first on personal perspectives rather than shared conceptions, it proposes that anthropologists can minimize assumptions about shared social and cultural structures in a way that explains how individualized understandings can be accepted by others. Divergent interpretations become comprehensible through empathic reasoning based on shared notions of human nature. This approach contributes to the ongoing anthropological project of minimizing assumptions about what our subjects know and expands anthropology's ability to explore change, intracultural variation, and the relationships between individuals and their cultural contexts
Cultural anthropology · Empathy · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Perspective-taking · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
Culture and Experience
Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis
Discipline and Punish
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment
Detective Stories At Dinnertime
Encountering the Supernatural
Zones Of Theory In The Anthropology Of The Arab World
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Constructivist Models of Mind, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Development of Culture Theory
On the Varieties and Particularities of Cultural Experience
Epilogue
Synchronizing Karma
Progress and Its Ruins
The Culture Concept as Theory, in Context
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |