TY - CHAP
T1 - End comment
T2 - To conclude in the spirit of rebirth, or, a note on animic anthropo-ontogenesis
AU - Ingold, Timothy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Selection and editorial matter: Kaj Århem and Guido Sprenger.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The chapter presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in this book. The Western scientific establishment has long cleaved to the first alternative, believing that infants and young children are universally predisposed to animism, being innately inclined to attribute life and mind to ostensibly inanimate objects, and have to be weaned off it as they mature. In truth the child's mind, according to Lévi-Strauss, comes exclusively pre-equipped neither with a propensity towards animism, nor conversely with a propensity towards naturalism, but rather with the seeds of both animism and naturalism. In animism, according to Carlos Fausto, 'intentionality and reflexive consciousness are not exclusive attributes of humanity but potentially available to all beings in the cosmos'. Not just humans, then, but beings of manifold kinds, including diverse animals, gods, spirits, the dead, thunder and the winds, plants, artefacts, harbour the potential to make their presence felt as the bearers of intentions towards others.
AB - The chapter presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in this book. The Western scientific establishment has long cleaved to the first alternative, believing that infants and young children are universally predisposed to animism, being innately inclined to attribute life and mind to ostensibly inanimate objects, and have to be weaned off it as they mature. In truth the child's mind, according to Lévi-Strauss, comes exclusively pre-equipped neither with a propensity towards animism, nor conversely with a propensity towards naturalism, but rather with the seeds of both animism and naturalism. In animism, according to Carlos Fausto, 'intentionality and reflexive consciousness are not exclusive attributes of humanity but potentially available to all beings in the cosmos'. Not just humans, then, but beings of manifold kinds, including diverse animals, gods, spirits, the dead, thunder and the winds, plants, artefacts, harbour the potential to make their presence felt as the bearers of intentions towards others.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315660288
DO - 10.4324/9781315660288
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780415713795
T3 - Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series
SP - 302
EP - 309
BT - Animism in Southeast Asia
A2 - Arhem, Kaj
A2 - Sprenger, Guido
PB - Routledge
CY - London and New York
ER -