Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia /: personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva.
• Other Names: Brightman, Marc; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa; Ulturgasheva, Olga
• Contents: List of Figures; Acknowledgements Foreword; Stephen Hugh-Jones Maps <a href="/downloads/intros/BrightmanAnimism_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction: Animism and Invisible Worlds: The Place of Non-humans in Indigenous Ontologies; Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva Chapter 1. Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Carlos Fausto Chapter 2. Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of North-eastern Siberia; Rane Willerslev and Olga Ulturgasheva Chapter 3. Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Laura Rival Chapter 4. Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs: Communication through Sharing Contexts; Tatiana Safonova and István Sántha Chapter 5. Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia; Luiz Costa Chapter 6. 'Spirit-charged' Animals in Siberia; Alexandra Lavrillier Chapter 7. Shamans, Animals and Enemies: Human and Non-Human Agency in an Amazonian Cosmos of Alterity; Casey High Chapter 8. Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: Spatiality and Objects in the Nenets Tundra Home; Vera Skvirskaja Chapter 9. Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia; Vanessa Elissa Grotti and Marc Brightman Chapter 10. Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond; Katherine Swancutt Afterword ; Piers Vitebsky Notes on Contributors; Index;
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Subjects: 306.0957; Shamanism -- Amazon River Region; Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia; Human-plant relationships -- Amazon River Region; Human-plant relationships -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia; Human-animal relationships -- Amazon River Region; Human-animal relationships -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857454690; 0857454692
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