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Article: Rethinking animism.(Faces in the Clouds by Stewart Guthrie)(Brief Article)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Stringer concludes his article on animism (1999) by discussing, at some length, another study and my Faces in the clouds (1993). Unfortunately, he misrepresents what I say. Guthrie, he writes, thinks that animism is giving 'human personality to non-human objects' and that animism can be 'reduced only to those non-empirical entities that appear to have personality or other "human" attributes' (Stringer 1999: 551). That is, I equate animism with anthropomorphism.
Actually, I recommend clearly and repeatedly that these two terms not be equated.
Animism, I argue, is best defined as attributing characteristics of living things (e.g. sentience and spontaneous ...
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