"THE SOUL OF THE SOUL IS THE BODY": Rethinking the Concept of Soul through North Asian Ethnography
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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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:ddck:18/3/464 2023-05-15T15:54:33+02:00 "THE SOUL OF THE SOUL IS THE BODY": Rethinking the Concept of Soul through North Asian Ethnography Pedersen, Morten Axel Willerslev, Rane 2012-10-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://commonknowledge.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/464 https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1630395 en eng Duke University Press http://commonknowledge.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1630395 Copyright (C) 2012 Fuzzy Studies: A Symposium on the Consequence of Blur Part 3 TEXT 2012 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1630395 2012-08-24T19:56:15Z 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. Text Chukchi Siberia HighWire Press (Stanford University) 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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