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Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia /

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 "thing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brightman, Marc (Editor ), Grotti, Vanessa Elisa (Editor ), Ulturgasheva, Olga (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.