Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here fundamental relational modes that are being tested in the face of change, presenting groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in shamanic societies and contributing to our global understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-02-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:308 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781782385240

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Marc Brightman is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

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“This thoughtful volume is extraordinarily rich and will prompt all of us interested in these questions to think about them from fresh perspectives.” • Anthropological Forum“This is an extremely interesting collection of papers which takes our understanding of animism forward considerably. Pre-scientific ideas abound in religion. The Bible's focus on sacrifice has roots here, and what is 'idolatry' but nature religion giving human characteristics to divinities and even trees, the Asherah.” • Journal of Beliefs and Values“This exciting book…offers an excellent introduction to the main theoretical problem that the book addresses—“the anthropology of nature.”… there is a lot of rich material here on how Siberian and Amazonian peoples create lives and communities out of inter-species relations and inter-species communicative practices that involve rural, frontier landscapes…I highly recommend this book for its rich ethnography and theory, and for its fruitful comparative perspective.” • Sibirica

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsForewordStephen Hugh-JonesMapsIntroduction: Animism and Invisible Worlds: The Place of Non-humans in Indigenous OntologiesMarc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga UlturgashevaChapter 1. Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in AmazoniaCarlos FaustoChapter 2. Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of North-eastern SiberiaRane Willerslev and Olga UlturgashevaChapter 3. Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from AmazoniaLaura RivalChapter 4. Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs: Communication through Sharing ContextsTatiana Safonova and István SánthaChapter 5. Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western AmazoniaLuiz CostaChapter 6. 'Spirit-charged' Animals in SiberiaAlexandra LavrillierChapter 7. Shamans, Animals and Enemies: Human and Non-Human Agency in an Amazonian Cosmos of AlterityCasey HighChapter 8. Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: Spatiality and Objects in the Nenets Tundra HomeVera SkvirskajaChapter 9. Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern AmazoniaVanessa Elissa Grotti and Marc BrightmanChapter 10. Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and BeyondKatherine SwancuttAfterwordPiers VitebskyNotes on ContributorsIndex