Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics

Françoise Dussart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Sylvie Poirier is Professor of Anthropology at Université Laval.

“Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics advances debates about how Indigenous cosmologies are received, understood, and valued. The contributors consider the complex connections that emerge between religiosity, politics, activism, and the ways in which globalization continues to shape these processes as Indigenous cultures relate with different elements of traditionally European religions.”Amy Whitehead, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Massey University

• 1 Indigenous Cosmologies, Entangled Religiosities, and Global Connections 1A Theoretical OverviewFRANÇOISE DUSSART & SYLVIE POIRIER2 Embracing Christianity, Rejecting Western Individualism? 33Inuit Leaders and the Limits of IndigenizationFRÉDÉRIC LAUGRAND3 Engaging Religiosities 59Relationality, Co-existence, and Belonging among Lander Warlpiri, Central AustraliaPETRONELLA VAARZON-MOREL4 Making People 87Manipulating Alterity in the Production of the Person among the Karipuna People of Northern BrazilANTONELLA TASSINARI5 Discourses on the Advent of New Times among the Kaingang People of Southern Brazil 111ROBERT R. CRÉPEAU6 From Unknown to Hypermediatized 133Shipibo-Konibo Female Shamans in Western AmazoniaANNE-MARIE COLPRON7 Tying Down the Soul of a Potato in the Southern Peruvian Andes 157Performance and FrictionsINGRID HALL8 Negotiating Indigenous-Global Relationships in Contemporary Shamanism 187The Case of MaltaKATHRYN ROUNTREE9 Indigenous Cosmologies and Social Media 219Creativity, Self-Representation, and Power of the Image for First Nations Women ArtistsCAROLINE NEPTON HOTTE & LAURENT JÉRÔME10 Human Remains and Indigenous Religiosity in the Museum Space 253Ritual Relations to the Altaian Mummy in the Anokhin National Museum of the Altai Republic, RussiaKSENIA PIMENOVA11 Shaman, Christian, Bureaucrat, Cop 285Maya Responses to Modern EntanglementsC. JAMES MACKENZIEContributors 311Index 317"