Compared Ontographies: Gods and Collective Beings. Epistemological Note
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By Albert PietteEnglish
This paper is an exploratory exercise, which aims to compare modes of presence before gods and collective beings. The observer, who is interested in situations’ details and days’ rhythm, necessarily meets different co-presences of human beings with gods and collective beings. The author thinks that the analyses are too often focused on mediations that represent divinities and institutions in situation. He proposes different axes to observe and compare presences and actions of invisible and virtual beings.
Keywords
- anthropology
- collective beings
- methodology
- gods
- presence