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Omens and their explanation among the Buryat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

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For the believing, shamanist nature is impregnated with mysterious activity. It is a consequence of the belief in a multiplicity of souls that a person, that is a human consciousness, need not always be where his body seems to be; and in everyday life a man does not expect to be conscious of what his soul may be doing. The idea that, without losing their individual personalities, the souls of certain dead people are transformed after death into the spirits of mountains, animal species, and other natural phenomena, means that human beings are surrounded on every side by a nature which is not what it seems to be; in rivers, animals and trees, and hidden by such an existence, are many fully conscious, aware, desirous beings. There is therefore in this world—but greater than it, extending also to other regions of the cosmos, the skies, the air, the earth and the underworld—a further reality, which ordinary people only fully realize when they die and become part of it.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , May 1976 , pp. 21 - 38
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1976

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(1) A similar point was made by Julia Kristeva when she suggested that the speaking subject had not been adequately discussed in theories of linguistics. She wrote: «Si la suspension de l'objet est de règie dans une thèorie logique, elle ne saurait l'être dans une théorie scientifique « factuelle » (physique, psychologique, etc., mais aussi, et davantage encore, linguistique); Apichez Saussure comme chez Chomsky, la position de cet objet est logiquement antérieure à la théorie […] et se définit par une certaine théorie implicite du sujet parlant; si la cohérence des théories linguistiques comme ensemble d'une classe dénommée « la linguistique » se présente comme due à un objet « intégral et concret », elle est en réalité produite par la posture spécifique d'un sujet qui, à la fois, s'y produit et en expose la théorie ». Du sujet en linguistique, Langages, (1971).

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