God and the Anthropologist
The article aims to be theoretical, and to consider the impact of the word "ontology" in anthropology. I will start from an observation of religious worship, in which at least humans, various objects and a divinity are present, as well as actions, movements, statements, perceptions and va...
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Bern Open Publishing
2015-05-01
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| author | Albert Piette |
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The article aims to be theoretical, and to consider the impact of the word "ontology" in anthropology. I will start from an observation of religious worship, in which at least humans, various objects and a divinity are present, as well as actions, movements, statements, perceptions and various thoughts. I shall then try to use the word "ontology" on at least two different levels: on the one hand, to describe entities, the presence of which must be assumed if the situation is to remain consistent, and on the other hand, to focus on what really exists, beyond what people do and say. Finally, I will explore the advantage of this "realist" point of view.
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| spelling | doaj.art-72069a021b14483398c205dead1145b72023-10-05T09:20:20ZdeuBern Open PublishingSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology2813-52292813-52372015-05-012010.36950/tsantsa.2015.20.7436God and the AnthropologistAlbert Piette0Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CNRS), Paris West University Nanterre The article aims to be theoretical, and to consider the impact of the word "ontology" in anthropology. I will start from an observation of religious worship, in which at least humans, various objects and a divinity are present, as well as actions, movements, statements, perceptions and various thoughts. I shall then try to use the word "ontology" on at least two different levels: on the one hand, to describe entities, the presence of which must be assumed if the situation is to remain consistent, and on the other hand, to focus on what really exists, beyond what people do and say. Finally, I will explore the advantage of this "realist" point of view. https://journal-sa.ch/article/view/7436ontologyexistencegodsobservationanthropologyexistential |
| spellingShingle | Albert Piette God and the Anthropologist Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology ontology existence gods observation anthropology existential |
| title | God and the Anthropologist |
| title_full | God and the Anthropologist |
| title_fullStr | God and the Anthropologist |
| title_full_unstemmed | God and the Anthropologist |
| title_short | God and the Anthropologist |
| title_sort | god and the anthropologist |
| topic | ontology existence gods observation anthropology existential |
| url | https://journal-sa.ch/article/view/7436 |
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