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This volume invites consideration of a set of concepts, animism, totemism and fetishism, which tease out the implications of Indigenous relationality in particular kinds of relationship.

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

9781138338562

ISBN 10:   1138338567
Pages:   384
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 IV Part 1: Animism 1. Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought 2. Taking animism seriously, but perhaps not too seriously? 3. On the ontological scheme of Beyond Nature and Culture 4. Animistic epistemology: Why do some hunter-gatherers not depict animals? 5. Multiplicity without myth: Theorising Darhad perspectivism 6. The materiality of life: Revisiting the anthropology of nature in Amazonia Part 2: Totemism and shamanism 7. An indigenous philosophical ecology: Situating the human 8. Ancestors, magic, and exchange in Yolngu doctrines: extensions of the person in time and space 9. Devouring perspectives: On cannibal shamans in Siberia 10. The three duties of good fortune: ‘luck’ as a relational process among hunting peoples of the Siberian Forest in pre-Soviet times 11. Rethinking identity and feminism: Contributions of Mapuche Women and Machi from Southern Chile 12. “Strange things happen to non-Christian people”: Human-animal transformation among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska Part 3: Fetishism 13. Animism, fetishism, and objectivism as strategies for knowing (or not knowing) the world 14. Working with the ancestors: The Kabra mask and the “African Renaissance” in the Afro-Surinamese Winti religion 15. The hidden life of stones: Historicity, materiality and the value of Candomblé objects in Bahia 16. Tales from the land of magic plants: Textual ideologies and Fetishes of indigeneity in Mexico’s Sierra Mazateca 17. Fetishism as social creativity: Or, fetishes are Gods in the process of construction

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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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