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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New York :
Berghahn,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.