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Animism in rainforest and tundra [electronic resource] : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 209 p.) ill., mapsISBN:
  • 0857454692 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780857454690 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.0957 23
LOC classification:
  • GN564.A47 A55 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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