E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten
Chamel / Dansac Relating with More-than-Humans
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-10294-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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Interbeing Rituality in a Living World
E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability
ISBN: 978-3-031-10294-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Within the social sciences, other-than-human being's agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to 'the living'.This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings' legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales.
Jean Chamel is Senior SNSF Researcher in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.Yael Dansac is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
