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"A web of connections binding us to others" Bats, Birds, Squirrels and Guano

Nicole Revel

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The article aims to help the reader to shift his frame of reference and to learn from other perceptions, attitudes and uses within many other ontological frames provided by numerous ethnographic examples in the Americas, then in Northern Asia and Southeast Asia. By a compilation of many examples worldwide the authors show how the traditional local conceptions referred to are quite distinct from many doxa. One of the most striking example is found among aboriginal Australians of Victoria River , where a family is composed of humans and flying foxes. The mothers are thought to be since the time of creation flying foxes and this has an implication on the social organization, particularly on the affinity rules. The connectionist thinking here provides a rule of prohibition, namely, flying foxes people do not marry other flying foxes people, the rule of exogamy is stipulated. This ancestral cosmology, reactivates by way of myths and kinship a rather recent debate (1986-1991) referred to in Laugrand’ paper , about the phylogeny of flying foxes, some authors suggesting from neurological characters that they were more closely related to primates than to microbats(Pettigrew, J. D. (1986). Flying primates? Megabats have the advanced pathway from eye to midbrain. Science, 231(4743), 1304-1306).
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Nicole Revel. "A web of connections binding us to others" Bats, Birds, Squirrels and Guano. Current Anthropology, 2023, 64 (3), pp.321 - 351. ⟨10.1086/725081⟩. ⟨hal-04240851⟩
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