Search results for "Animism"
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La teoria degli schemi della pratica di Descola e il caso etnografico dei Wayùu
2022
The chapter traces Descola's interest in the collocation of the cosmology of the indigenous Wayùu people of the Guajira peninsula within his typology of ontologies and modes of identification. It also deals with the positions of those scholars who have proposed reinterpretations of Wayùu ethnography in the light of Descola's theory of the patterns of practice exposed in 'Beyond Nature et Culture'
Neochamanismos en España. Retorno a las creencias ancestrales de la Madre Tierra
2017
Entre las múltiples y variadas nuevas formas de espiritualidad contemporánea podemos destacar el chamanismo, más concretamente los neochamanismos como uno de los nuevos desarrollos espirituales a partir de la recuperación de nuestra relación ancestral con la Naturaleza y que busca en los orígenes, el acceso a una religión primigenia conservada por algunos pueblos indígenas. En este artículo tratamos de reflexionar acerca de la llegada y la extensión de dicho fenómeno a España en el marco del nuevo mercado espiritual, de esa constelación místico-esotérica que vive Occidente como una forma de explicación válida ante los déficits de sentido modernos y posmodernos que nos acechan y que nos hace…
Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, 28
2020
Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, XXVIII lasītāju uzmanībai piedavā latviešu, lietuviešu un krievu pētnieku zinātniskos rakstus par reliģisko valodu, ticības un prāta attiecību skaidrojumu teorijās par atvērtu un slēgtu sabiedrību, dažādiem biofilozofijas jautājumiem, pētījumu par bizantiešu un un latīņu baznīcu līdzāspastāvēšanas atspoguļojumu Indriķa hronikā, lauka pētījuma piezīmes par mūsdienu animismu Indijā, kā arī citas filozofijas un reliģijpētniecības tēmas. /// Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, XXVIII offers to the readers' attention scientific articles by Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian researchers on the religious language, the relationship between faith and reason in theories of an ope…
The agency of non-human entity in the recent anthropology of the Indigenous Lowland South America
2015
In the last twenty years, agency has entered the field of anthropological studies of Lowland South America Indigenous Peoples as a term and a topic of concern. Ethnographical and theoretical treatment of this notion has intertwined here with the revisiting of the concept of animism, Viveiros de Castro’s statements about “amerindian perspectivism” and a broader “ontological turn” in research orientation. In the paper I discuss this trend, focusing on how different notions of agency are used to talk about topics as shamanism and ontological status of artifacts as well as, more generally, of other non-human categories of beings. I pay attention too to dissonances and consonances in this field …
Pagānisms Igaunijā: koku loma cilvēku dzīvē
2015
Darba būtība ir apskatīt, kāda ir pagānisma saistība ar dabu, tātad arī kokiem. Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, kāda ir igauņu attieksme pret kokiem, kāda ir koku nozīme igauņu dzīvē, un salīdzināt, kā šī mijiedarbība ir laika gaitā mainījusies. Darba uzdevumi ir apkopot teorētisko materiālu par to, kas ir ticība, reliģija un pagānisms, kāda ir koku loma igauņu tradīcijās; intervēt igauņus, lai noskaidrotu, kāda ir mūsdienu igauņu attieksme pret kokiem; salīdzināt, kā koku un cilvēku mijiedarbība laika gaitā ir mainījusies; kā arī izdarīt secinājumus. Pētījuma rezultāti rāda, ka intervēto igauņu apziņā koki ir dzīvas un apgarotas būtnes. Tomēr nav skaidrs, vai koki jūt sāpes tā, kā to dara c…
“Sealfie”, “Phoque you” and “Animism”: The Canadian Inuit Answer to the United-States Anti-sealing Activism
2018
A corpus made by online Canadian newspaper articles, coming from the archives of CBC News, Vice Canada and Huffington Post Canada, and related multimedia contents such us audio interviews, videos and especially links to images and comments shared on Twitter, allows us to reconstruct the debate on the seal hunt that involved Canadian media in 2014. In specific, we propose an interpretation of the pro-sealing discourse by Canadian Inuit and Newfoundlanders as an ironic and incisive answer to the serious United States animal rights activists discourse, explaining how these two different points of view on animals come from a different experience of the environment and a different conception of …
Uccidere spazi. Microanalisi della corrida
2013
Che senso ha fare corride oggi? Chi è lo spettatore della corrida nell’Europa contemporanea? Da almeno tre generazioni il Tardo Occidente aspetta una fine che non arriva e recupera spazi in disuso per allestire rifugi di fortuna. La corrida è una di queste camere ambigue, dove sistema e critica al sistema coabitano per necessità come il vecchio e la sua badante. Ma l’arena è anche una parentesi vuota: ogni epoca l’ha riempita di metafore che avevano senso in quel dato momento. Allora quali aporie, quali mancanze lo spettatore della corrida porta con sé oggi nel teatro della tauromachia? Che cosa accade nel corpo-mente di chi guarda uomini e tori che cercano di uccidersi a vicenda? Con quest…
Vr̥kṣa vivāha. Dendrogamie in India fra tradizioni antiche e pratiche devozionali contemporanee
2021
An inextricable tangle of branches and roots arises in many Indian villages in the place where two trees united in marriage (vr̥kṣa vivāha), grow intertwining with each other in an everlasting 'embrace'. This interweaving describes well the complex network of symbols and textual references that are revealed in the relationships that Indian culture has built around a pair of trees: the aśvattha and the śamī. In this paper, I will try to highlight some mythological and ritual aspects related to this pair. The two trees, in fact, although in today's context separately, are the object of rituals that turn out to be true tree marriages. In particular, concerning aśvattha, what is striking is tha…
Mūsdienu latviešu animisma modifikācijas
2015
Mūsdienās īpaša piesaiste dabas pasaulei vairs nav nepieciešama, jo sakrālā pasaule tiek uztverta savādāk, ne vairs kā iztikas nodrošinātāja. Tomēr cilvēkam emocionāla piesaiste ir saglabājusies. Šī pasaule bieži tiek fragmentēta, sakralizējot konkrētu vietu ar dabas objektu elementiem, kuriem tiek piedēvētas enerģētiskas īpašības. Piedēvēt šādas īpašības dabas objektiem ir raksturīgi New Age kustībai. Ietekmējoties no šīs kustības, tradicionālās latviešu animisma idejas tiek sapludinātas ar New Age kustības idejām. Šajā darbā tiek aplūkotas divas svētvietas, kurām tiek piedēvētas enerģētiskas īpašības, kas ir raksturīgi New Age, -Pokaiņi, kas atrodas Dobeles novada Naudītes pagastā un Sokr…
Bodies That Matter: Miniaturisation and the Origin(s) of ‘Art’
2020
Small things matter, especially in the so-called ‘arts’. From the visual arts to music and literature, ‘miniatures’ are a transcultural and transhistorical phenomenon that involves our aesthetic attitudes but also our everyday life, our emotional, social and cognitive life. Miniaturisation characterises our cognitive life and, of course, the ‘cognitive life of things’ that we produce, manipulate and discard. My paper is articulated into two sections: the first gives a quick overview of the miniatures of Homo sapiens, especially those of the paleolithic age, and a brief survey of the very challenging history of miniature-interpretation in twentieth-century philosophy of culture. In the secon…