Keynote lecture  2014

Persons, Things, and Perceptions in Indigenous Amazonia: Comparative Reflections on Animism, Fetishism, and Perspectivism

2014 IX Sesquiannual Conference, Gothenburg

Alf Hornborg (Professor, Human Ecology Division, Lund University).

Alf Hornborg delivered the Keynote Lecture of the 2014 SALSA Conference, on June 28th 2014, 6:00 PM, at the Assembly hall, top floor of the Annedalsseminariet of the University of Gothenborg (Sweden), with the title “Persons, Things, and Perceptions in Indigenous Amazonia: Comparative Reflections on Animism, Fetishism, and Perspectivism” (see the Video Alf Hornborg on Technology as Fetish).

A revised version of his lecture, titled “The political economy of technofetishism: Agency, Amazonian ontologies, and global magic,” was published in HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory.