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Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857454690
  • 0857454692
  • 178238524X
  • 9781782385240
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Animism in rainforest and tundra.DDC classification:
  • 202.1 306.0957
LOC classification:
  • GN564.A47 A55 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • LC 42000
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Contents:
Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1. Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 2. Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate:; Chapter 3. Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Chapter 4. Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs; 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; Chapter 8. Expressions and Experiences of Personhood; 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.
Summary: 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 processesof the
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)499360

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 processesof the

Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1. Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 2. Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate:; Chapter 3. Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Chapter 4. Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs; 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; Chapter 8. Expressions and Experiences of Personhood; 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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