SOSC 4510 Chapter ---: Seminar 17 - Feb 4 - Religion and Popular Culture
29 Apr 2016
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Michael lambek rheumatic irony: questions of agency and self depiction as refracted through the art of learning with spirits 99- 106 (textbook 3) How ordinary people draw on local conventions and idioms in the living of their individual and interested lives. The art of living as practised and demonstrated by sport mediums in the malagasy-speaking world of northwestern madagascar, maybe and france. Possession becomes a vehicle with respect to which the non possessed or soon to be possessed also re ect on and live their lives, if only by resisting its form, messages and imprecations. In the malagasy world, the expression and building for the dimension of human activity aristotle referred to as polesis. Our sociality is built into our psychic structure and there is no easy separation of individual and society or possibility of the individual apart from society.
