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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8931238" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Earlier in posts <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/norse-world.652482/page-5#post-7613098" target="_blank">89</a>, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/norse-world.652482/page-5#post-7613101" target="_blank">90</a>, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/norse-world.652482/page-5#post-7613656" target="_blank">91</a>, I quote David Abrams, an anthropologist who describes animism (and shamanism), and why it is unlike other worldviews. His fieldwork is mainly across SE Asia, but he keeps his descriptions of animism "etic" (describing a cross-cultural human phenomenon) (in addition to "emic" descriptions, being the context and understanding from within a specific culture). A reason why he emphasizes the animism is because it personally took him a while to get beyond his own worldview assumptions as a Westerner before he could even "understand" what these cultures were doing and saying.</p><p></p><p>I feel the Sámi speaking first-person in the YouTube is helpful. She is trying to describe the Sámi animism to other worldviews. She says things like, "the gods are not gods", knowing Westerners will find it difficult to grasp what she is trying to say.</p><p></p><p>The gist is, what Westerners assume are "inanimate" objects − such as the sun (Beaivi) − are living "souls". The "sun shines" therefor is a living being with personhood.</p><p></p><p>These souls arent like a superior "judge" over an inferior subject.</p><p></p><p>These many features of nature are ones own family members and neighbors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8931238, member: 58172"] Earlier in posts [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/norse-world.652482/page-5#post-7613098']89[/URL], [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/norse-world.652482/page-5#post-7613101']90[/URL], [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/norse-world.652482/page-5#post-7613656']91[/URL], I quote David Abrams, an anthropologist who describes animism (and shamanism), and why it is unlike other worldviews. His fieldwork is mainly across SE Asia, but he keeps his descriptions of animism "etic" (describing a cross-cultural human phenomenon) (in addition to "emic" descriptions, being the context and understanding from within a specific culture). A reason why he emphasizes the animism is because it personally took him a while to get beyond his own worldview assumptions as a Westerner before he could even "understand" what these cultures were doing and saying. I feel the Sámi speaking first-person in the YouTube is helpful. She is trying to describe the Sámi animism to other worldviews. She says things like, "the gods are not gods", knowing Westerners will find it difficult to grasp what she is trying to say. The gist is, what Westerners assume are "inanimate" objects − such as the sun (Beaivi) − are living "souls". The "sun shines" therefor is a living being with personhood. These souls arent like a superior "judge" over an inferior subject. These many features of nature are ones own family members and neighbors. [/QUOTE]
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