This volume invites consideration of a set of concepts, animism, totemism and fetishism, which tease out the implications of Indigenous relationality in particular kinds of relationship.
Introduction to Volume IV Part 1: Animism 1. Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought 2. Taking animism seriously, but perhaps not too seriously? 3. On the ontological scheme of Beyond Nature and Culture 4. Animistic epistemology: Why do some hunter-gatherers not depict animals? 5. Multiplicity without myth: Theorising Darhad perspectivism 6. The materiality of life: Revisiting the anthropology of nature in Amazonia Part 2: Totemism and shamanism 7. An indigenous philosophical ecology: Situating the human 8. Ancestors, magic, and exchange in Yolngu doctrines: extensions of the person in time and space 9. Devouring perspectives: On cannibal shamans in Siberia 10. The three duties of good fortune: ‘luck’ as a relational process among hunting peoples of the Siberian Forest in pre-Soviet times 11. Rethinking identity and feminism: Contributions of Mapuche Women and Machi from Southern Chile 12. “Strange things happen to non-Christian people”: Human-animal transformation among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska Part 3: Fetishism 13. Animism, fetishism, and objectivism as strategies for knowing (or not knowing) the world 14. Working with the ancestors: The Kabra mask and the “African Renaissance” in the Afro-Surinamese Winti religion 15. The hidden life of stones: Historicity, materiality and the value of Candomblé objects in Bahia 16. Tales from the land of magic plants: Textual ideologies and Fetishes of indigeneity in Mexico’s Sierra Mazateca 17. Fetishism as social creativity: Or, fetishes are Gods in the process of construction
