This volume highlights the conceptual differences between European colonial cultural, often Cartesian, discourses and Indigenous lifeways/ontologies, focusing on the concepts of world-making, cosmology, and ecology and life-ways.
Introduction to Volume II Part 1: World-making 1. “Bluebelly” 2. The trickster and world maintenance: an Anishinaabe reading of Louise Erdrich’s Tracks 3. Exchanging perspectives: The transformation of objects into subjects in Amerindian ontologies 4. Latina health activist-healers bridging body and spirit 5. Hunting for history in Potam Pueblo: A Yoeme (Yaqui) Indian deer dancing epistemology Part 2: Cosmology 6. Shifting ontologies in Huichol ritual and art 7. “Living water” in Nguni healing traditions, South Africa 8. Aztec human sacrifice as expiation 9. Saltwater People: Spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes 10. “Contagious emotions” and the ghost dance religion: Mooney’s science, Black Elk’s fever 11. The most revered of foxes: Knowledge of animals and animal power in an Ainu kamui yukar 12. The flow of life in Buntao’ Southeast Asian animism reconsidered Part 3: Ecology and life-ways 13. Animism, conservation and immediacy 14. Misfit messengers: Indigenous religious traditions and climate change 15. The nature of food: Indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change 16. Peyote woman 17. Contexts of offerings and ritual maize in the pictographic record in central Mexico 18. Spirit and practical knowledge in the person of the bear among Wemindji Cree hunters 19. Searching for synergy: integrating traditional and scientific ecological knowledge in environmental science education 20. Salvaging nature: the Akan religio-cultural perspective
