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'An anthropological concept of the concept': reversibility among the Siberian Yukaghir
Corsín Jiménez, Alberto
Willerslev, Rane
Corsín Jiménez, Alberto [0000-0002-1360-4060]
Antropología
Epistemología
This article attempts to sketch a new anthropological
epistemology. It does so by revisiting the work that concepts do in
economic models, and by suggesting an alternative
‘anthropological concept of the concept’ for the economy. The
article looks to how concepts create their own limits of meaning
and uses the very idea of limit to rethink how conceptual thought
out-grows and transforms itself. We develop our epistemology by
looking at the socio-economic practices and institutions of the
Yukaghirs, a small group of indigenous hunters, living along the
Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. The Yukaghirs’ moment of
creative possibilities is given through the reversibility of every one
of their economic practices, informed by the work of a shadow
force (ayibii) that aims for the limit. We gain insights from this
notion of reversibility to rethink the purchase of the ‘economic’ in
our contemporary world, questioning the validity of such
‘conceptual’ descriptions as virtualism or the knowledge economy.
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2009-10-20T09:55:24Z
2007
artículo
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 13, 2007, págs. 527-544
1467-9655
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/17811
spa
openAccess
Wiley-Blackwell