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The Occult Life of Things

ISBN: 9780816530427 | 0816530424
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr
Pub. Date: 2/1/2013

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Summary
Native peoples of the Amazon view objects, especially human artifacts, as the first cosmic creations and the building blocks from which the natural world has been shaped. In these constructional cosmologies, spears became the stings of wasps, hammocks became spiderwebs, stools became the buttocks of human beings. A view so antithetical to Western thought offers a refreshing perspective on the place and role of objects in human social life--one that has remained under-studied in Amazonian anthropology. In this book, ten scholars re-introduce obj... MORE


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