ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cosmetology, Fetishism, Moral Economy
Intro: Behold the Black Caimen
2 modes of thinking in west: ontology; epistemology
Ontology: what is possible to think
• Inhabit amer-indian ontology; has several types; multiplicities of ontologies;
• Persepctivenism- continuous across communities; together are a non-western
ontology
• Ontological symptoms of reality being torn away: deaf
Mimesis- copying; bringing me down effect; becoming same
• Dog and human interdependence
Synthetic magic- shawman
• Blowing on things to change situation
• Asking for incantations is complicated
• Why don’t they do magic anymore
Anthropolgists- devils
Alterity- becoming different
Poem to aeroyo person; generalization; freezing in time; grave robbers; they’re now new
people
Difference between worlds transition to chapter 1
Anthropologist is evil when they try to open box
• After something the aeroyo people are very sensitive about
Fetish- animate and inanimate at same time
Surrendering power through magic
• They see bessire trying to take their magic
Reciproval economy can’t cheat
Fetishism of labor- mediated by money- breaks moral connection
Transition from moral economy to wage economy
Traditions become currency
Anthropologist fetishes traditions
Black Caimen- sign that things are ending; when the anthropologists show up you’ve
been sonquered
Bessire- looks at people and black caimen; their world being ripped to shreds
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Document Summary
2 modes of thinking in west: ontology; epistemology. Inhabit amer-indian ontology; has several types; multiplicities of ontologies: persepctivenism- continuous across communities; together are a non-western ontology, ontological symptoms of reality being torn away: deaf. Mimesis- copying; bringing me down effect; becoming same: dog and human interdependence. Synthetic magic- shawman: blowing on things to change situation, asking for incantations is complicated, why don"t they do magic anymore. Poem to aeroyo person; generalization; freezing in time; grave robbers; they"re now new people. Anthropologist is evil when they try to open box: after something the aeroyo people are very sensitive about. Surrendering power through magic: they see bessire trying to take their magic. Fetishism of labor- mediated by money- breaks moral connection. Black caimen- sign that things are ending; when the anthropologists show up you"ve been sonquered. Bessire- looks at people and black caimen; their world being ripped to shreds.
