Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g
Reihe: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
How Rituals Enact the World
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g
Reihe: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
ISBN: 978-0-19-979386-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world's peoples--the world's social majority--quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue to be loved or feared or both, continue to accompany the human beings in all their activities. In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.'' In other words, they recognize that human beings are in communion with other beings in nature that have agency and are kinds of spiritual intelligences, with whom humans can be in relationship and communion. Ritual is the medium for communicating, reciprocating, creating and working with the other-than-humans, who daily remind the humans that the world is not for humans' exclusive use. Apffel-Marglin argues moreover, that when such relationships are appropriately robust, human lifeways are rich, rewarding, and in the contemporary jargon, environmentally sustainable. Her ultimate objective is to ''re-entangle'' humans in nature--she is, in the final analysis, promoting a spirituality and ecology of belonging and connection to nature, and an appreciation of animistic perception and ecologies. Along the way she offers provocative and poignant critiques of many assumptions, including of the ''development'' paradigm as benign (including feminist forms of development advocacy), of the majority of anthropological and other social scientific understandings of indigenous religions, and of common views about peasant and indigenous agronomy. She concludes with a case study of the fair trade movement, illuminating both its shortcomings (how it echoes some of the assumptions in the development paradigms) and its promise as a way to rekindle community between humans as well as between humans and the other-than-human world.
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Scholars and students of anthropology, ethnography, and ritual studies in South American culture
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Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politics of ''Wilderness'': The Nature/Culture Dualism Revisited
Chapter 2: Economics and the Making of ''Natural Resources''
Chapter 3: Re-entangling the Material and the Discursive: Quantum Physics and Agential Realism
Chapter 4: The Spirit of the Gift in the Peruvian Andes: Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta
Chapter 5: Supersessionism and the Teaching of Agronomy in Peru
Chapter 6: Dancing with the Mountain in the Altiplano: The Festival of the Ispallas
Chapter 7: The State and Feminist Missionizing in Bolivia (with Loyda Sanchez)
Chapter 8: Beyond Absolute Time and Space: From Representation to Performativity in Rituals
Chapter 9: Fair Trade and the Possibility of Biocultural Regeneration
Epilogue: Performing the Lessons Learned
Appendix
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