Rejecting the category of belief is one of the most striking and profound ideas to emerge from the ontological turn. This essay will argue that the rejection of belief is best understood as part of a broader rejection of representationalism. Representationalism regards thought, speech, and intentionality as depending primarily on the mind’s ability to manipulate beliefs, ideas, meanings, or similar contents. Some central strands of the ontological turn thus participate in the philosophical project of understanding human life without appeal to such representational states. After showing how 20th century anthropology was implicated in the representationalist picture, this essay will critique some of the arguments against belief found among proponents of the ontological turn. It will then try to construct a more robust argument against the use of the category of belief in anthropology. It ends with some reflections on what it means to do anthropology without belief.

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没有信仰的人类学：反代表主义本体论转向

拒绝信仰的类别是从本体论转向中出现的最引人注目的和最深刻的想法之一。本文认为，对信仰的排斥最好理解为对代表主义的广泛排斥的一部分。代表性论认为思想，言语和意向性主要取决于头脑操纵信念，思想，含义或类似内容的能力。因此，本体论转向的一些中心部分参与了理解人类生活的哲学计划，而没有诉诸于这些代表性状态。在展示了二十世纪人类学是如何与代表性的图片联系起来的之后，本文将对一些在本体论转向支持者中发现的反对信仰的论点进行批判。然后，它将尝试针对人类学信念类别的使用构建一个更强有力的论据。最后，对没有信仰的人类学意味着什么进行了思考。