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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461660903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-283-65556-X

0-85745-469-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrightmanMarc

GrottiVanessa Elisa

UlturgashevaOlga

Disciplina

306.0957

Soggetti

Shamanism - Amazon River Region

Shamanism - 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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 2 - Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate:; Chapter 3 - Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Chapter 4 - Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs; Chapter 5 - Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia; Chapter 6 - 'Spirit-charged' Animals in Siberia; Chapter 7 - Shamans, Animals and Enemies; Chapter 8 - Expressions and Experiences of Personhood:

Chapter 9 - Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern AmazoniaChapter 10 - Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond; Afterword; Notes on



Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 th