Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood

Epple, Carolyn

doi:10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.218

American Anthropologist

1999

DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.218

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Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood

Carolyn Epple

Abstract: Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood. Maureen Trudelle Schwarz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. 300 pp.

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Anatomies of Relatedness: Considering Personhood in Aboriginal Australia

Glaskin

2012

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Anthropologists have described Aboriginal Australian personhood in various ways. In 1986, Myers spoke about the tension between autonomy and relatedness that he identified as intrinsic aspects of Pintupi identity. More recently, Keen (2006) has identified the extension of Yolngu persons in time and space; others have described Aboriginal personhood as "dividual." Based on ethnography from the northwest Kimberley region of Western Australia, I argue that one way of characterizing personhood is as an ontology of embodied relatedness.In this, I draw inspiration from Ashforth's (2011) approach to relational realism, in which he extends the field of relations under consideration to entities beyond the human. I also consider Viveiros de Castro's (2009) synthesis of kinship, exchange, and magic to argue that the relationship between these can be understood through the embodied relationality that is at the core of cultural conceptions of the person. [personhood, Aboriginal Australia, relatedness, embodiment]

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Glaskin

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American Anthropologist

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Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood

Abstract: Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood. Maureen Trudelle Schwarz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. 300 pp.

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