In this introduction, we propose a new approach to anthropological knowledge making that would observe the ‘hyper-reflexive’ quality of ethnographic exchanges. We show that anthropological ideas infiltrate themselves into the discourse of native thinkers, even as native ideas regenerate anthropological theory. Our starting point is ‘animism’, a key concept of anthropological theory. We suggest that anthropologists and their interlocutors jointly reinvent animistic ideas through a process we describe as the ‘reflexive feedback loop’, in which abstract ideas about practice and belief are appropriated and recirculated by research participants. By way of conclusion, we reflect on how anthropologists and their collaborators ‘animate’ soul concepts through diverse forms of agency such as metamorphosis, doubling, autobiographical narrative, hidden jokes, and even technological animism.

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人类学知识的形成、反射性反馈回路和灵魂的概念化

在本介绍中，我们提出了一种新的人类学知识制作方法，该方法将观察人种学交流的“超反射”质量。我们表明，即使本土思想重生了人类学理论，人类学思想也会渗透到本土思想家的话语中。我们的出发点是“万物有灵论”，这是人类学理论的一个关键概念。我们建议人类学家和他们的对话者通过我们描述为“反射性反馈循环”的过程共同重塑万物有灵论的思想，在这个过程中，研究参与者挪用和循环关于实践和信仰的抽象思想。作为结论，我们反思人类学家和他们的合作者如何通过各种形式的代理来“激活”灵魂概念，例如变形、加倍、自传式叙事、隐藏的笑话、