Between Cinema and Anthropology: kinship and animism in “Midsommar”, by Ari Aster

Abstract

This article aims to bring together certain anthropological reflections from the film “Midsommar” (2019) by Ari Aster in the form of an elective affinity, to quote or a Weberian term. The defense made here is the possibility of treating “Midsommar” as a material capable of inciting and recovering various anthropological problems related to kinship and animism in the form of a film. See here that such proximity is virtual and starts from this reflection to treat films as ethnographic material that can be analyzed, even with reference to anthropology, if you have a few moments through two characters shown as anthropologists. When presenting a reflection on the subject, as the questions presented here refer to themes related to the American, the construction and comparison of notions of incest and the idea of ​​mutuality of being as a central element in the film. As for animism, it is presented both as an element intrinsically linked to the issue of the relative and as an ethical position with behavioral implications based on principles and notions with ontological implications.