Omens and Effect: Divergent Perspectives on Emerillon Time, Space and Existence
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Omens and Effect : Divergent Perspectives on Emerillon Time, Space and Existence. / Møhl, Perle.
Meaulne : Semeïon Editions, 2012. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Omens and Effect
T2 - Divergent Perspectives on Emerillon Time, Space and Existence
AU - Møhl, Perle
N1 - Bogen udgives sammen med filmen, "Confluences".
PY - 2012/6/15
Y1 - 2012/6/15
N2 - When scientists present their versions of the world – in writing, maps, inventories, figures, images, etc. – they pose their imprint upon it. Like omens, their representations not only reflect the world, they do things, they have effect.Perle Møhl has worked with the Emerillon (Teko) of French Guiana since 1989 as an anthropologist, filmmaker and collaborator in media productions. In "Omens and Effect", she traces the tangible effects of established scientific descriptions – omens, as she calls them – in the daily lives of the Emerillon, and explores the creative activities the Emerillon have engaged in to counter such omens, opposing them with their own inventive and optimistic descriptions of the world, and their place and possibilities within it. The result is a semiotic struggle about definitions and the right to make them count - a semantic "field of tension" where the anthropologists' own actions and productions play an active part.
AB - When scientists present their versions of the world – in writing, maps, inventories, figures, images, etc. – they pose their imprint upon it. Like omens, their representations not only reflect the world, they do things, they have effect.Perle Møhl has worked with the Emerillon (Teko) of French Guiana since 1989 as an anthropologist, filmmaker and collaborator in media productions. In "Omens and Effect", she traces the tangible effects of established scientific descriptions – omens, as she calls them – in the daily lives of the Emerillon, and explores the creative activities the Emerillon have engaged in to counter such omens, opposing them with their own inventive and optimistic descriptions of the world, and their place and possibilities within it. The result is a semiotic struggle about definitions and the right to make them count - a semantic "field of tension" where the anthropologists' own actions and productions play an active part.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Amazonia
KW - Emerillon (Teko)
KW - Ethnic identity
KW - Cultural creativity
KW - Cartography
KW - Enumeration
KW - Visual anthropology
KW - Political anthropology
KW - Indigenous politics
KW - Media politics
KW - Self-presentation
KW - Amazonia
KW - Teko
KW - Ethnic minority politics
KW - Cartography
KW - Recognition
KW - Cultural creativity
KW - fewness
KW - politics of numbers
M3 - Book
SN - 979-10-90448-02-5
BT - Omens and Effect
PB - Semeïon Editions
CY - Meaulne
ER -
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