2018
DOI: 10.4000/lhomme.30729
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Le diable et la vie cachée des nombres

Abstract: C'est un honneur immense pour moi que d'inaugurer le cycle des conférences Lévi-Strauss. Je voue une sincère admiration à celui qui fut le plus grand anthropologue du xx e siècle et dont l'influence a été décisive pour l'anthropologie au Brésil, en particulier dans la formation que j'ai reçue au Museu nacional de l'Université fédérale de Rio de Janeiro. Son oeuvre a placé les peuples indigènes sud-américains au centre de discussions, non pas comme le faisait l'anthropologie de son temps, où les pratiques et la… Show more

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“…I wish to conclude with the fact that the Wari’ opted to maintain the term ‘alone’ for the unit while adopting Portuguese nouns for the other numerical terms. Like diverse Christian translations among the Wari’ (see Vilaça 2016), comparable to the ‘twisted words’ of the Yaminawa shamans, or even the portmanteau words used by Lewis Carroll in his Alice , allowing transitions between distinct ontologies (see Vilaça 2018), the ‘alone’ seems to me to have the same function in the school universe. It takes them from the ‘universe of precision to the world of the more or less,’ to invert an expression of Koyré (1980), and maintains the indefinition of elements as a constitutive part of their perspective universe 20…”
Section: The Instability Of 1 and The ‘Blue Stones’ Of Borgesmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…I wish to conclude with the fact that the Wari’ opted to maintain the term ‘alone’ for the unit while adopting Portuguese nouns for the other numerical terms. Like diverse Christian translations among the Wari’ (see Vilaça 2016), comparable to the ‘twisted words’ of the Yaminawa shamans, or even the portmanteau words used by Lewis Carroll in his Alice , allowing transitions between distinct ontologies (see Vilaça 2018), the ‘alone’ seems to me to have the same function in the school universe. It takes them from the ‘universe of precision to the world of the more or less,’ to invert an expression of Koyré (1980), and maintains the indefinition of elements as a constitutive part of their perspective universe 20…”
Section: The Instability Of 1 and The ‘Blue Stones’ Of Borgesmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…As I observed earlier, it is interesting to note that although the schooled Wari’ have adopted the names for numbers in Portuguese, they remained monolingual for 1, always using the term for ‘alone,’ a fact also observed by the missionary linguist Barbara Kern (Everett and Kern 1997, 347). In a previous work (Vilaça 2018), this peculiarity of the numerical system currently used by the Wari’ prompted me to suggest the incompatibility between their thought and the notion of unity objectified in the number 1, so central to Christianity.…”
Section: The Instability Of 1 and The ‘Blue Stones’ Of Borgesmentioning
confidence: 99%