Rethinking Relation-Substance Dualism - Submutances and the Body

This book analyses anthropological debates on "relationism" (referring to methodological and theoretical issues) and sets out to reconsider these discussions with regards to the notion of "substance" (generally associated with the body).

List of contents

Introduction. Lévi-Strauss' Enfants Terribles
Part I Historiographical Overview
1 From Substantialist Premises to Relationalist Perspectives. From Aristotle to Cognitivism via Lévi-Strauss
2 Anthropo-Philosophical and Ethno-Phenomenological Relations. From Torment to Ecstasy?
Conclusion to Part I
Part II Structuralist Legacies
3 Body and Intentionality. Descola's "Relative Universalism"
4 The body-Sign. Viveiros de Castro's anti-substantialist relationism
Conclusion to Part II
Part III Chinese Relationisms and Submutances
5 The Lost Body. Wang Mingming's "Cosmology of Relationship" and Hierarchical Relationism
6 Shamanic Bodies and Submutances. The Course of Writing, Blood, Breath and Water
Conclusion to Part III
Conclusion. "What the body can do"

About the author

Aurélie Névot is an anthropologist and research professor at the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS).

Product details

• Authors: Aurélie Névot
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032426648
• ISBN: 978-1-032-42664-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, East Asia, Far East, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism