Therianthropes in a Cartesian and an Animistic Cosmology: Beyond-the-Pale Monsters versus Being-in-the World Others
The nature of human-animal hybrid beings (or therianthropes) is examined in an Animistic (traditional San Bushman) and a Cartesian (Early Modern Western) cosmology. In each ontological ambiguity is imagined and conceptualized in different terms. One of them is through monstrosity, which, in the Wes...
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| Language: | English |
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Polish Ethnological Society
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture |
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| Online Access: | https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/article/view/42301 |