Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: Repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji

Tomlinson, Matthew

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Bringing Kierkegaard into anthropology: Repetition, absurdity, and curses in Fiji

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2014

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Tomlinson, Matthew

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American Anthropological Association

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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard offers two concepts that can strengthen anthropological analyses of Christianity. The first is "repetition," or the act of "recollecting forward," which provides a model of transformation that depends neither on d

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American Ethnologist

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10.1111/amet.12066

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