Breen, GP;
(2021)
Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’ Anthropology Is Possible without Relations but Not without Things.
Social Analysis
, 65
(1)
pp. 44-69.
10.3167/sa.2021.650103.
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Abstract
Worldwide followers of the late Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee share a central concern with human-divine ‘oneness’, but there are different understandings in different localities about how such oneness works. I utilize one such difference by analyzing group unity in Euro-America using Taiwanese understandings of oneness, which involve things (selfsame unities) but not relations. Experimenting with Dumontian, Strathernian, and object-oriented anthropologies, I show that anthropological analysis is currently possible (a) by emphasizing things, (b) by emphasizing relations, and (c) entirely without relations. Anthropology entirely without things, however, has not yet been achieved. I conclude by suggesting reasons why we might want to attain this final possibility in our approach to things and/or relations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’ Anthropology Is Possible without Relations but Not without Things |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3167/sa.2021.650103 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650103 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Christianity; comparison; Dumont; object-oriented ontology; relations; Strathern; Taiwan |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10131906 |
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