Animism in Rainforest and Tundra : : Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia /

Animism in Rainforest and Tundra : : Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / / ed. by Marc Brightman, Olga Ulturgasheva, Vanessa Elisa Grotti.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Brightman, Marc,
Costa, Luiz,
Fausto, Carlos,
Grotti, Vanessa Elisa,
High, Casey,
Hugh-Jones, Stephen,
Lavrillier, Alexandra,
Rival, Laura,
Safonova, Tatiana,
Skvirskaja, Vera,
Swancutt, Katherine,
Sántha, István,
Ulturgasheva, Olga,
Vitebsky, Piers,
Willerslev, Rane,
HerausgeberIn:
Brightman, Marc,
Grotti, Vanessa Elisa,
Ulturgasheva, Olga,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Maps
  • Introduction: Animism and Invisible Worlds: The Place of Non-humans in Indigenous Ontologies
  • Chapter 1 Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia
  • Chapter 2 Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of North-eastern Siberia
  • Chapter 3 Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia
  • Chapter 4 Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs: Communication through Sharing Contexts
  • Chapter 5 Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia
  • Chapter 6 ‘Spirit-charged’ Animals in Siberia
  • Chapter 7 Shamans, Animals and Enemies: Human and Non-human Agency in an Amazonian Cosmos of Alterity
  • Chapter 8 Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: Spatiality and Objects in the Nenets Tundra Home
  • Chapter 9 Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia
  • Chapter 10 Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond
  • Afterword
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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