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DESCRIPTION:A special lecture: Guanyin’s limbo: Interrogating the agency an
 d personhood of deity statues\, by Professor David Palmer.\n\nDavid Palmer
  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universit
 y of Hong Kong. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology and East Asian Studies fro
 m 9I���������\, a M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology/Medical Anthropology from Univ
 ersity of Paris-VIII\, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology of Religion from Ecole 
 Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne\, Paris).\n\n'In this paper\, we appl
 y concepts from the recent ontological turn in anthropology to interrogate
  the agency and personhood of ‘idols\,’ man-made statues of deities. Using
  the case of statues of Guanyin\, the Bodhisattva of Compassion\, in Hong 
 Kong\, we follow the life-course of the statues\, considering their produc
 tion\, circulation\, animation\, and disposal. These ethnographic observat
 ions of the material and social lives of Guanyin statues lead us to use th
 e concepts of prototype\, distributed personhood\, and dividuation\, to ma
 p out the relationship between Guanyin as a singular deity and her myriad 
 objectifications in the form of statues and images\, as well as the unique
  persons that emerge from each statue through its interactions with differ
 ent humans as well as different places and other deity statues. In a highl
 y but not fully secularized metropolis such as Hong Kong\, Guanyin statues
  are ambiguous and contested – they may be seen as demi-persons\, neither 
 fully persons nor fully objects.”\n
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LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit
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SUMMARY:Special lecture: Guanyin’s limbo: Interrogating the agency and pers
 onhood of deity statues
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 uanyins-limbo-interrogating-agency-and-personhood-deity-statues-295919
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