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 ancient...

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Main Authors: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- (Author), Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn, [2023].
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505 0 |a 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. 
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