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Introduction. The Interweaving of Vital and Technical Processes in Oceania
Author(s) -
Coupaye Ludovic,
Pitrou Perig
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/ocea.5178
Subject(s) - animism , ethnography , relation (database) , process (computing) , diversity (politics) , sociology , anthropology , epistemology , history , computer science , philosophy , database , operating system
Among the diversity of theoretical options applied to study life from an anthropological standpoint, we suggest that it is relevant to use the concepts and methods of the anthropology of technique. In addition to the issue of the relation between living beings – that works on animism or multispecies ethnography aptly tackle – we suggest investigating life as a process of production and the many kinds of interweaving of vital and technical processes. The aim of this dossier is, then, to propose some examples of the insights that this global framework – dealing with life as animation and as fabrication – can bring for the analysis of Pacific ethnographical materials.