Gift and methodological animism
Caillé, Alain
Gift and methodological animism - 2022.
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How tackle the environmental challenges we are facing if not by (re)forging an alliance with nature ? This paper advocates “methodological animism” and shows that such an alliance implies to “make community” with natural entities as much as with humans, and to do so, to view them as quasi-subjects, or rather as gift givers. As if nature was in actuality giving us something and thus was inviting us to establish a relationship of recognition and gratitude with it.
Gift and methodological animism - 2022.
40
How tackle the environmental challenges we are facing if not by (re)forging an alliance with nature ? This paper advocates “methodological animism” and shows that such an alliance implies to “make community” with natural entities as much as with humans, and to do so, to view them as quasi-subjects, or rather as gift givers. As if nature was in actuality giving us something and thus was inviting us to establish a relationship of recognition and gratitude with it.
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