Rethinking animism.(Faces in the Clouds by Stewart Guthrie)(Brief Article)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | March 1, 2001 | Copyright

Stringer concludes his article on animism (1999) by discussing, at some length, another study and my Faces in the clouds (1993). Unfortunately, he misrepresents what I say. Guthrie, he writes, thinks that animism is giving 'human personality to non-human objects' and that animism can be 'reduced only to those non-empirical entities that appear to have personality or other "human" attributes' (Stringer 1999: 551). That is, I equate animism with anthropomorphism.

Actually, I recommend clearly and repeatedly that these two terms not be equated.

Animism, I ...

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