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Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova (University of St Andrews)

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Dates:29 February 2016
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Dr Victor Cova
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Title: Back from the Future.

In this paper I ask how it is that humans can experience the future in the present, even though the future, by definition, can never be made present. I focus on the technologies used by people in the Ecuadorian Amazon to provoke encounters with futures under the guise of persons. I describe three such technologies: hallucinogenic plants, the Proclaimer (a loudspeaker that can only play readings from the New Testament), and a personal diary. In all three cases I focus on the experiences of women, some indigenous Shuar, others North American, some Christian, others not. I show that these various experiences of the future-as-person follow a similar structure, even as the nature of the futures in question changes. I also show that these encounters provide these women with “power” (kakaram, existential intensification) both personal and political.

2.016/2.017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building

(Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4pm)

All welcome.

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Dr Victor Cova

Organisation: University of St Andrews

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