Others, Other Minds, and Others' Theories of Other Minds: An Afterword on the Psychology and Politics of Opacity Claims

摘要

The opacity claim, at least in much of the Melanesian evidence we have before us in this collection, is among other things, a political claim about the moral and practical conditions of social interaction and about the power relations that those involve. Christian semiotic ideologies articulate representational economies within which words might no longer function in exchange with things, in which new speaking parts (congregations, preachers, God) and new kinds of actions (sins, confession, and acts of redemption) enter into play.