Ghost and the other

Dangerous commensalities and twisted becomings

Bibliographic Data

ID5114897
AuthorsLudek Broz (0000-0002-9971-0496, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume69
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerrain (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0760-5668 • E-ISSN: 1777-5450
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/terrain.16623
OpenAlexW2810273698
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

This article focuses on ghost-related othering: of those alive and those dead in a Siberian village; of those who subscribe to the existence of ghosts by certain Russian officials; of texts that do not reduce ghosts to a second order of reality from the genre of ethnography, and their authors from the rank of fellow anthropologists. Pushing the logic of the "ontological turn" in anthropology to its limits, it asks whether such instances simply resemble each other, or whether it is possible to discern some sort of ontological continuity between them. Could the similitudes be the effect of ghosts' (perhaps fragmented and partial) existence, rather than their (monolithic, ultimate and unquestionable) non-existence

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Order (exchange · Rank (graph theory · Sociology · sort · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Mathematics · Philosophy

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