Walker, Harry 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9879-4045
(2018)
On logophagy and truth: interpretation through incorporation among Peruvian Urarina.
Language and Communication, 63.
pp. 15-22.
ISSN 0271-5309
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Abstract
This paper develops an Amazonian critique of Western theories of interpretation as grounded in correspondence between a proposition and a state of affairs, and of truth as correspondence between mind and reality. For the Peruvian Urarina, language has materiality and force and implies a non-arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and is moreover based in a very different mode of adequation of person to world: a process grounded in absorption rather than representation. The view that words are effectively consumed by others reaches its apogee in the baau genre of ritual discourse, in which a healer’s speech is literally digested by the patient as a core part of the healing process.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/language-and... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2018 15:50 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2024 19:36 |
| Projects: | 715725 |
| Funders: | Horizon 2020 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87531 |
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