Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia
A disciple's account of Joanna Overing's oeuvre and teachings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2629751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos D Londoño Sulkin (University of Regina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-186 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal de la Société des Américanistes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-9174 • E-ISSN: 1957-7842 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/12kie |
| OpenAlex | W4403714710 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In the Caquetá, Colombia, in 1995, I asked an Englishman who was doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. at Oxford for advice about graduate studies in the UK. 'Maybe consider going to Joanna Overing,' he recommended. He thought that she and her students were doing the most exciting research in Amazonianist anthropology at the time. Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna's supervision and witnessing a golden but embattled era in her career. This is my personal account of her loves and peeves, her generous supervisory style, her theories, and her place in the history of our discipline and regional specialization, as I now see these. Regarding the latter, I focus especially on her brilliant writing on how contingent associations of Western anthropologists' analytical terms hinder proper understanding of others' political philosophies and ways of life; I attend as well to her attention to the centrality of moral understandings in social life, and to her participation in debates about Amazonian engagements with alterity, consanguinity, and conviviality
Amazon rainforest · Anger · Art · Art history · Biology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The efficacy of laughter
The Sisyphus Syndrome, or the struggle for conviviality in Native Amazonia
'Though it comes as evil, I embrace it as good'
The Backlash to Decolonizing Intellectuality
Introduction
Amazonian Anthropology
The Subject of Virtue
The Soul's Body and Its States
The Shaman as a Maker of Worlds
Images of Nature and Society in Amazonian Ethnology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |