Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

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Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva

Berghahn Books, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

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 Istvan Santha 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

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