Hybrid2022Michel Nachez, Patrick Schmoll2 citations
This paper looks into the implications of avatarization regarding self-construction and self-presentation, based on personal experiences and observations conducted in a virtual world (Second Life), observations and conversations with other gamers, and an exploration of the paradoxes at play in participants’ relationships to their avatars, as well as in their relationship to other players and...
This article takes an Amazonian example to question one of the main issues of the shamanic ritual utterance: the operation of composition-translation that the ritual specialist has to carry out to “represent” the invisibles during his performance, and the sensory apparatuses it implies. In fact, the study of the ikara therapeutic songs of the Runa people from the Peruvian Amazon (Upper Pastaza)...