Event overview
With Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge. Part of spring term seminar series
Stimulated by a very pointed question concerning the immortality of the soul, the paper returns to some of anthropology’s earlier concerns with animism alongside a renewed interest in other than human beings. Here the being are plants, and the question applied to the lives of plants as well as the lives of people. Rather than converting the concept of the ‘soul’ into a more late-modern-friendly term, it keeps close to a specific Victorian rendition with what seem to the author some interesting consequences. It thus arrives at a question, among others, about the immortality of the body.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Feb 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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