Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-524-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 335 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brightman, Marc

Grotti, Vanessa Elisa

Ulturgasheva, Olga

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Stephen Hugh-Jones

Maps

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brightman, Marc
Marc Brightman is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Grotti, Vanessa Elisa
Vanessa Elisa Grotti is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Ulturgasheva, Olga
Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Marc Brightman is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.