Anchoring "The Symbolic Economy of Alterity" with Autobiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5167516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Oakdale (0000-0002-6508-0676, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1652-4772 • E-ISSN: 2001-9866 |
| Publisher | Trinity University Coates Library - DC Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.70845/2572-3626.1039 |
| OpenAlex | W160893092 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay addresses the usefulness of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's concept of the "symbolic economy of alterity" for understanding the subjectively meaningful historical details of individual lives. My focus is the autobiographical narratives of two Kayabi men from central Brazil whose lives have spanned the twentieth century. Their accounts show that these men do, in fact, speak of identity, with kin as being fashioned gradually out from alterity, in keeping with Viveiros de Castro's model. However, this process, when seen over a significant span of time, is highly reversible, causing others and selves to become very ambiguous figures with respect to identity and alterity. Este ensaio explora a utilidade do conceito da "economia simbólica da alteridade" de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro para entendcr o significado subjetivo dos detalhes htstóricos da vida de indivíduos. Este artigo focaliza as narrativas autobiográficas de dois índios Kayabi que viveram ao longo do século vinte no Brasil central. Essas narrativas mostram de fato que esses índios apresentam uma identidade familiar que foi formada gradualmente a partir da alteridade, de acordo com o modelo de Viveiros de Castro. Entretanto, quando esse processo é analisado durante um período de tempo mais longo ele é altamente reversível, levando outros e eles mesmos a se tornarem figuras muito ambíguas com respeito à identidade e à alteridade
Alterity · Anchoring · Art · Art history · Biography · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Symbolic · Cultural Identity and Heritage · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |