Chaosmology: Shamanism and personhood among the Bugkalot

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

doi:10.14318/hau6.1.013

Chaosmology: Shamanism and personhood among the Bugkalot

Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

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This article examines personhood as contracted from a field of chaos. By analyzing the discourses on shamanism, spirits, and the wilderness among the Bugkalot of Northern Philippines, I seek to formulate a hypothesis about the properties of personhood in relation to the Bugkalot cosmology at large. This approach to cosmology is not one that asserts a coherent system of knowledge but rather portrays the Bugkalot cosmology as contingent, fragmentary, perpetually assuming a coherence and stability that swiftly dissolves. In order to lay out how this cosmology in motion—or “chaosmology”—is temporarily stabilized the article explores the role of shamanism among the Bugkalot.

Original language	English
Journal	HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Volume	6
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	189-205
ISSN	2049-1115
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.013
Publication status	Published - 2016

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