Excesses, Resisting Interpretation, and the Negative in Three Latin American Imaginaries

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dc.contributor.authorSanto D.E.
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-30T10:00:18Z
dc.date.available2026-01-30T10:00:18Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstract© The Author(s).This article will explore three ethnographies—of Brazilian Umbanda, Cuban espiritismo, and Chilean ufology—whose cosmoses are variably self-referential, paradoxical, and absurd. I follow their anti-logics and argue that they exhibit, firstly, an excess, and secondly, a resistance to interpretation. Taking my concept of excess from Marisol de la Cadena, and of resisting interpretation from Susan Sontag, I argue that a radical version of resisting interpretation must go beyond experience and describe ontological evacuation itself—a ‘nothingness’ that holds all possibilities simultaneously; or an excess that contradicts either-or logics. I suggest we look at both the horror narrative and apophatic mysticism, which resist thought itself, as well as language, for a heuristic that is able to deal with ethnographies that defy logics of meaning or common sense.
dc.description.funderEconomic and Social Research Council
dc.description.funderFundação para a Ciencia e Tecnologia
dc.description.funderPrograma de Investigación Asociativa
dc.description.funderAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
dc.format.extent383 páginas
dc.fuente.origenScopus
dc.identifier.doi10.3167/arrs.2024.150105
dc.identifier.eissn2150-9301
dc.identifier.issn2150-9298
dc.identifier.scopusidSCOPUS_ID:105007726100
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2024.150105
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/107964
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001540780100005
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Antropología; Espirito Santo, Diana; 0000-0003-4813-7455; 250481
dc.information.autorucNo Informado; Espirito Santo, Diana; S/I; 250481
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.pagina.final75
dc.pagina.inicio60
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.relation.ispartofInheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities - 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1 Proceedings
dc.revistaReligion and Society
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subjectApophasis
dc.subjectexcess
dc.subjectnegation
dc.subjectparadox
dc.subjectresisting interpretation
dc.subject.ddc700
dc.subject.ods04 Quality education
dc.subject.ods16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
dc.subject.odspa04 Educación y calidad
dc.subject.odspa16 Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
dc.titleExcesses, Resisting Interpretation, and the Negative in Three Latin American Imaginaries
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen15
sipa.codpersvinculados250481
sipa.codpersvinculados250481
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