How to Make Up One's Mind
Reason, Passion, and Ethics in Spirit Possession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096514 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Lambek (0000-0003-4629-1301, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 720-741 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | University of Toronto Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0247 • E-ISSN: 1712-5278 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.3138/utq.79.2.720 |
| OpenAlex | W4245331391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 20 |
What does it mean to know one's own mind, to make up one's mind, or to be of two minds? The paper explores some of the assumptions Westerners make about mind and confronts them with elements from the ethnography of spirit possession among Malagasy speakers. It challenges the assumption that a unified state of mind, exemplified by pure reason as opposed to passion, is the necessary basis for sound ethical judgment and action
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Passion · Possession (linguistics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Struggling Along in Nigeria
The Fragility of Voice
They have shown me what I need to know
The quest for a good life
What's love got to do with it
The hermeneutics of ethical encounters
On being present to history
Kinship as gift and theft
The end times and the near future
From distress to disease
Dreams from Elsewhere
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
The Nuclear Borderlands
The Weight of the Past
Art of Living
Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body
Married Life in an African Tribe
Duty and Desolation
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
The Human Condition
Bipolar Expeditions
Spirits and selves in Northern Sudan
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Gender of the Gift
Unnatural Emotions
A Pitch of Philosophy
Beyond 'The Hunting and Gathering Mode of Subsistence
Spirits and spouses
The Anthropology of Religion and the Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |