Of jaguars and butterflies : metalogues on issues in anthropology and philosophy /

"What are we to make of statements that jaguars see themselves as humans, or of doubts about the boundary between dreams and waking? Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and a...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- (Awdur), Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5501089
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Are people and animals separate kinds of beings?
  • Could animal-human transformations be considered as dreaming or hallucinating?
  • Could we think of transformations as metaphoric?
  • Similarities and contrasts with Ancient Greece
  • Are there complete and incomplete transformations?
  • How do things become equivalent?
  • Is shamanism a kind of disease?
  • Are there objects without perspectives?
  • Why are some animals unable to transform?
  • Do transformations need proof?
  • Are shamans and healers ever doubted?
  • Are transformations analogous to miracles? : Is it all about believing?
  • Is proof linked to literacy?
  • Could those transformations be compared to those in literary fiction?
  • Should we talk about ontologies when faced with a world in flux?
  • Anthropologists and philosophers.