====== Week 11—Seeing is doing, or how social forms know themselves ======

===== Week 11—Seeing is doing, or how social forms know themselves =====

**Main reading:** Street (2014); Reed (1999)

**Other reading:** Rio (2005); Viveiros de Castro (1998); Viveiros de Castro (2004)

===== References =====

Reed, Adam. 1999. “Anticipating Individuals: Modes of Vision and Their Social Consequence in a Papua New Guinean Prison.” //The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute// 5 (1): 43–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2660962.


Rio, Knut M. 2005. “Discussions Around a Sand-Drawing: Creations of Agency and Society in Melanesia.” //Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute// 11 (3): 401–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00243.x.


Street, Alice. 2014. “The Waiting Place.” In //Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital//. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/269/chapter/111426/The-Waiting-Place.


Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 1998. “Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism.” //The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute// 4 (3): 469–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/3034157.


———. 2004. “Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies.” //Common Knowledge// 10 (3): 463–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-3-463.



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