Chapter 5 Narratives of the Invisible Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate—Is Reconciliation Possible? vii
4. Introduction Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul 1
5. Chapter 1 The Algebra of Souls Ontological Multiplicity and the Transformation of Animism in Southwest China 18
6. Chapter 2 Recursivity and the Self-Reflexive Cosmos Tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian Spirit Mediumship Practices 37
7. Chapter 3 Spirit of the Future Movement, Kinetic Distribution, and Personhood among Siberian Eveny 56
8. Chapter 4 The Art of Capture Hidden Jokes and the Reinvention of Animistic Ontologies in Southwest China 74
9. Chapter 5 Narratives of the Invisible Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia 92
10. Chapter 6 Technological Animism The Uncanny Personhood of Humanoid Machines 110
11. Postscript Anthropologists and Healers—Radical Empiricists 129
12. Index 140