Mayské kříže, hory a jeskyně ve světle ontologického relativismu a fenomenologické antropologie

• Authors: Jan Kapusta

Title variants

EN

Maya crosses, mountains and caves in the light of ontological relativism and phenomenological anthropology

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The so-called ontological turn, drawing largely on Viveiros de Castro´s notion of Amazonian perspectivism, has attracted considerable attention in contemporary anthropology. The proponents of ontological relativism were indeed submitted to strong criticism focusing, among other things, on the questions of obscurity, solipsism or meta-ontology. In the theoretical section of the study, I present selected themes of this approach, its merits, but also its difficulties that I try to overcome by means of present-day phenomenological anthropology. The key question - in which are the examined otherness and its apprehending grounded? - I attempt to answer through the concepts of the everyday experience and the lifeworld. In the empirical section of the study, I illustrate the theory with the ethnography of Maya perception of crosses, mountains and caves, which are considered to be living and acting beings.

Keywords

EN

Guatemala; the Maya; religion; anthropology of nature; ontological turn; phenomenological anthropology

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 437-463
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Kapusta

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic