Introduction. The Interweaving of Vital and Technical Processes in Oceania. Issue 1 (25th February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Coupaye, Ludovic; Pitrou, Perig
• Other Names: Coupaye Ludovic guestEditor.; Pitrou Perig guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Oceania. Volume 88:Issue 1(2018:Mar.)
• Page Start: 2
• Page End: 12
• Publication Date: 2018-02-25
• Subjects: life -- technology -- living beings -- artefacts -- magic -- art -- production; Ethnology -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- Oceania -- Periodicals; Oceania -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 919
• DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5178
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0029-8077

Abstract

Abstract : Among the diversity of theoretical options applied to study life from an anthropological standpoint, we suggest that it is relevant to use the concepts and methods of the anthropology of technique. In addition to the issue of the relation between living beings – that works on animism or multispecies ethnography aptly tackle – we suggest investigating life as a process of production and the many kinds of interweaving of vital and technical processes. The aim of this dossier is, then, to propose some examples of the insights that this global framework – dealing with life as animation and as fabrication – can bring for the analysis of Pacific ethnographical materials.