Stocks of Images

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2021.650207

S. Feuchtwang

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Abstract

What kind of knowledge is created through systems of divination? I will contend that the form of such knowledge is a type of pattern recognition—patterns that emerge in reference to a cosmology and by means of a stock of images. Divination creates knowledge of a moment and its circumstances. Reference to a sense of the encompassing world raises the issue of how any one means of divination and its outcomes is bound historically to a civilization. That will be my secondary topic of reflection. I will conclude with a discussion of worlds, recent history, speculation, and the ontology of divination in relation to the experience of uncertainty in which the object of knowledge is the momentary and its circumstances.

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什么样的知识是通过占卜系统创造出来的?我认为，这种知识的形式是一种模式识别——模式的出现与宇宙学有关，并借助于大量的图像。占卜创造了一个时刻及其环境的知识。对世界的感知提出了一个问题，即任何一种占卜手段及其结果是如何在历史上与一种文明联系在一起的。这将是我思考的第二个主题。最后，我将讨论世界、近代史、思辨以及与不确定性经验相关的预言本体论，其中知识的对象是瞬间及其环境。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.