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This volume highlights the conceptual differences between European colonial cultural, often Cartesian, discourses and Indigenous lifeways/ontologies, focusing on the concepts of world-making, cosmology, and ecology and life-ways.

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Author:   Graham Harvey (Open University, UK) ,  Amy Whitehead
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.889kg
ISBN:  

9781138338548

ISBN 10:   1138338540
Pages:   383
Publication Date:   30 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume II Part 1: World-making 1. “Bluebelly” 2. The trickster and world maintenance: an Anishinaabe reading of Louise Erdrich’s Tracks 3. Exchanging perspectives: The transformation of objects into subjects in Amerindian ontologies 4. Latina health activist-healers bridging body and spirit 5. Hunting for history in Potam Pueblo: A Yoeme (Yaqui) Indian deer dancing epistemology Part 2: Cosmology 6. Shifting ontologies in Huichol ritual and art 7. “Living water” in Nguni healing traditions, South Africa 8. Aztec human sacrifice as expiation 9. Saltwater People: Spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes 10. “Contagious emotions” and the ghost dance religion: Mooney’s science, Black Elk’s fever 11. The most revered of foxes: Knowledge of animals and animal power in an Ainu kamui yukar 12. The flow of life in Buntao’ Southeast Asian animism reconsidered Part 3: Ecology and life-ways 13. Animism, conservation and immediacy 14. Misfit messengers: Indigenous religious traditions and climate change 15. The nature of food: Indigenous Dene foodways and ontologies in the era of climate change 16. Peyote woman 17. Contexts of offerings and ritual maize in the pictographic record in central Mexico 18. Spirit and practical knowledge in the person of the bear among Wemindji Cree hunters 19. Searching for synergy: integrating traditional and scientific ecological knowledge in environmental science education 20. Salvaging nature: the Akan religio-cultural perspective

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Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. Dr Amy Whitehead is based at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.

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