Marc Brightman & Vanessa Elisa Grotti 
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra [EPUB ebook] 
Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

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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, 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.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Foreword
Stephen Hugh-Jones

Maps

Introduction: Animism and Invisible Worlds: The Place of Non-humans in Indigenous Ontologies
Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva

Chapter 1. Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia
Carlos Fausto

Chapter 2. Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of North-eastern Siberia
Rane Willerslev and Olga Ulturgasheva

Chapter 3. Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia
Laura Rival

Chapter 4. Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs: Communication through Sharing Contexts
Tatiana Safonova and István Sántha

Chapter 5. Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia
Luiz Costa

Chapter 6. ‚Spirit-charged‘ Animals in Siberia
Alexandra Lavrillier

Chapter 7. Shamans, Animals and Enemies: Human and Non-Human Agency in an Amazonian Cosmos of Alterity
Casey High

Chapter 8. Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: Spatiality and Objects in the Nenets Tundra Home
Vera Skvirskaja

Chapter 9. Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia
Vanessa Elissa Grotti and Marc Brightman

Chapter 10. Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond
Katherine Swancutt

Afterword
Piers Vitebsky

Notes on Contributors
Index
 

Über den Autor


Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 226 ● ISBN 9780857454690 ● Dateigröße 1.4 MB ● Herausgeber Marc Brightman & Vanessa Elisa Grotti ● Verlag Berghahn Books ● Ort NY ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2012 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2799045 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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