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

Media type: E-Book

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

Contains: 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

Contributor: Brightman, Marc [Contributor]; Brightman, Marc [Editor]; Costa, Luiz [Contributor]; Fausto, Carlos [Contributor]; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa [Contributor]; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa [Editor]; High, Casey [Contributor]; Hugh-Jones, Stephen [Contributor]; Lavrillier, Alexandra [Contributor]; Rival, Laura [Contributor]; Safonova, Tatiana [Contributor]; Skvirskaja, Vera [Contributor]; Swancutt, Katherine [Contributor]; Sántha, István [Contributor]; Ulturgasheva, Olga [Contributor]; Ulturgasheva, Olga [Editor]; Vitebsky, Piers [Contributor]; Willerslev, Rane [Contributor]

Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2012]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (226 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780857454690

ISBN: 9780857454690

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RVK notation: LC 42000 : Darstellung ohne geografischen Bezug

Keywords: Animism Amazon River Region ; Animism Russia (Federation) Siberia ; Human-animal relationships Amazon River Region ; Human-animal relationships Russia (Federation) Siberia ; Human-plant relationships Amazon River Region ; Human-plant relationships Russia (Federation) Siberia ; Shamanism Amazon River Region ; Shamanism Russia (Federation) Siberia ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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Footnote: In English

Description: 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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