“THE SOUL OF THE SOUL IS THE Body”
As part of a Common Knowledge symposium on the “consequence of blur,” this article reassesses the anthropologist E. B. Tylor’s famous but vague concept of the animist soul as an optimal reflection of the soul’s fuzzy ontological status among animist peoples. Unlike the Platonic body/soul dichotomy,...
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crdukeunivpr:10.1215/0961754x-1630395 2024-06-02T08:05:21+00:00 “THE SOUL OF THE SOUL IS THE Body” Pedersen, Morten Axel Willerslev, Rane 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-1630395 https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/18/3/464/234833/CK183_05Pedersen_Fpp.pdf en eng Duke University Press Common Knowledge volume 18, issue 3, page 464-486 ISSN 0961-754X 1538-4578 journal-article 2012 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-1630395 2024-05-07T13:16:45Z As part of a Common Knowledge symposium on the “consequence of blur,” this article reassesses the anthropologist E. B. Tylor’s famous but vague concept of the animist soul as an optimal reflection of the soul’s fuzzy ontological status among animist peoples. Unlike the Platonic body/soul dichotomy, with its fixed appearance/essence distinction, indigenous conceptions of the soul among North Asian peoples, such as the Chukchi of Siberia and the Darhads of Mongolia, are reversible: persons can turn themselves inside-out as their inner souls and outer bodies cross over and become one another. Article in Journal/Newspaper Chukchi Siberia Duke University Press Common Knowledge 18 3 464 486 |
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As part of a Common Knowledge symposium on the “consequence of blur,” this article reassesses the anthropologist E. B. Tylor’s famous but vague concept of the animist soul as an optimal reflection of the soul’s fuzzy ontological status among animist peoples. Unlike the Platonic body/soul dichotomy, with its fixed appearance/essence distinction, indigenous conceptions of the soul among North Asian peoples, such as the Chukchi of Siberia and the Darhads of Mongolia, are reversible: persons can turn themselves inside-out as their inner souls and outer bodies cross over and become one another. |
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