Animism in rainforest and tundra personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / [electronic resource] : edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2012 - 1 online resource (xvi, 209 p.) ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Animism and invisible worlds : the place of non-humans in indigenous ontologies / Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva -- Too many owners : mastery and ownership in Amazonia / Carlos Fausto -- Revisiting the animism versus totemism debate : fabricatinf persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of north-eastern Siberia / Rane Willerslev and Olga Ulturgasheva -- Animism and the meaning of life : reflections from Amazonia / Laura Rival -- Stories about Evenki people and their dogs : communication through sharing contexts / Tatiana Safonova and István Sántha -- Making animals into food among the Kanamari of western Amazonia / Luiz Costa -- 'Spirit-charged' animals in Siberia / Alexandra Lavrillier -- Shamans, animals and enemies : human and non-human agency in an Amazonian cosmos of alterity / Casey High -- Expressions and experiences of personhood : spatiality and objects in the Nenets tundra home / Vera Skvirskaja -- Humanity, personhood and transformability in northern Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Marc Brightman -- Masked predation, hierarchy, and the scaling of extractive relations in Inner Asia and beyond / Katherine Swancutt.

0857454692 (electronic bk.) 9780857454690 (electronic bk.)


Shamanism--Amazon River Region.
Shamanism--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
Animism--Amazon River Region.
Animism--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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture


Electronic books.

GN564.A47 / A55 2012

306.0957