2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice
What would the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac look like through the value magnitude of Chukchi sacrifice, and vice versa? Drawing on the Dumontian idea that a dominant value contains its contrary within, I show that what counts as the dominant value in each of the two sacrificial traditi...
Main Authors: | , |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.402.8633 http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ |
id |
ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.402.8633 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.402.8633 2023-05-15T15:54:27+02:00 2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice Rane Willerslev Museum Of Cultural History The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.402.8633 http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.402.8633 http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ sacrifice value Abraham Kierkegaard faith Chukchi text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T02:54:13Z What would the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac look like through the value magnitude of Chukchi sacrifice, and vice versa? Drawing on the Dumontian idea that a dominant value contains its contrary within, I show that what counts as the dominant value in each of the two sacrificial traditions is so deeply co-implicated that trickery (Chukchi) becomes the shadow of faith (Abraham), and vice versa. At certain moments, one dominant value or the other is captured by its own shadow and flips into its contrary. This reversibility takes place against a “paramount value ” shared by both traditions: the necessary hierarchical distance between humanity and divinity. All of this allows us to reconsider Abraham’s trial in a manner that is precisely contrary to most prevailing interpretations—namely, as an act in which God is put on trial by Abraham. Text Chukchi Unknown |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Unknown |
op_collection_id |
ftciteseerx |
language |
English |
topic |
sacrifice value Abraham Kierkegaard faith Chukchi |
spellingShingle |
sacrifice value Abraham Kierkegaard faith Chukchi Rane Willerslev Museum Of Cultural History 2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice |
topic_facet |
sacrifice value Abraham Kierkegaard faith Chukchi |
description |
What would the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac look like through the value magnitude of Chukchi sacrifice, and vice versa? Drawing on the Dumontian idea that a dominant value contains its contrary within, I show that what counts as the dominant value in each of the two sacrificial traditions is so deeply co-implicated that trickery (Chukchi) becomes the shadow of faith (Abraham), and vice versa. At certain moments, one dominant value or the other is captured by its own shadow and flips into its contrary. This reversibility takes place against a “paramount value ” shared by both traditions: the necessary hierarchical distance between humanity and divinity. All of this allows us to reconsider Abraham’s trial in a manner that is precisely contrary to most prevailing interpretations—namely, as an act in which God is put on trial by Abraham. |
author2 |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
format |
Text |
author |
Rane Willerslev Museum Of Cultural History |
author_facet |
Rane Willerslev Museum Of Cultural History |
author_sort |
Rane Willerslev |
title |
2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice |
title_short |
2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice |
title_full |
2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice |
title_fullStr |
2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice |
title_full_unstemmed |
2013 | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 140–54 God on trial Human sacrifice |
title_sort |
2013 | hau: journal of ethnographic theory 3 (1): 140–54 god on trial human sacrifice |
url |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.402.8633 http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ |
genre |
Chukchi |
genre_facet |
Chukchi |
op_source |
http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ |
op_relation |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.402.8633 http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/viewFile/246/306/ |
op_rights |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
_version_ |
1766389634909077504 |