Agency of Breath - Beyond Disciplinary Views on Ritual
Artykuł naukowy w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanyMiejsce: Cham
Rok wydania: 2020
Tytuł publikacji: The Logic of Social Practices
Redaktorzy: Raffaela Giovagnoli, Robert Lowe
Strony od-do: 169-185
Streszczenie: In order to enhance its potential for objective and universal practice-based comparisons (Lambek, 1998) anthropological studies of ritual have turned to phenomenology (Handelman & Lindquist, 2004; Duranti, 2010) as opposed to the representationalist and structuralist idiom. My analysis of E. Husserl and A. Schütz (Kawalec 2017) indicates that phenomenology cannot fulfill this role as it presumes the Western conceptual scheme with its rigid dichotomies. In this article I propose an alternative ‘folk’ approach to ritual – inspired by A. Gell’s approach to agency. I argue, that it is more widely applicable and comprehensively functional than its predominant theoretical alternatives. My argument is based on the etymological meaning of “rta” in Sanskrit which is then exemplified with selected cases: the Hebrew origins of ”ruaḥ”, the ethnographic facts on /?(on the basis of Alfred Gell’s research on Muria’s „God playing” and some selected theses of cultural and anthropological theory), and (iv) Jerzy Grotowski’s idea of techniques of the performer’s breath. In the concluding part of the paper I provide the rationale for the proposed approach to ritual by addressing Emmanuel Levinas’s and Karol Wojtyla’s idea of agency which transgress the phenomenological tradition towards the ethical and normative dimension of human action (Laidlaw, 2014; Lambek, 2015).
Cytowanie w formacie Bibtex:
@article{1,
author = "Anna Kawalec",
title = "Agency of Breath - Beyond Disciplinary Views on Ritual",
journal = "",
year = "2020",
pages = "169-185"
}
Cytowanie w formacie APA:
Kawalec, A. (2020). Agency of Breath - Beyond Disciplinary Views on Ritual. , 169-185.