animism

Introduction. The article examines the mythopoetic experience of feeling reality, posing the question of what reality is within the mythopoetic worldview, and comparing it to mystical and other types of experience in answering the question of the reality. Theoretical analysis. Key properties of the mythopoetic worldview, and of reality as an indistinguishable bundle of the ontological, social, and divine are described.

The article discusses the contribution of the Brazilian anthropologist E. Castro to the formation of the post-structuralist method in anthropology. The analysis of the key notions of E. Castro’s concept (perspectivism, multinaturalism, equivocation) is proposed, according to which the subjectivity of a human is not unique and is one of the positions within the framework of the universal perspectivist structure of the world. The analysis of the sources and ethnographic data with which E.