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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792216703321

Autore

Apffel-Marglin Frédérique

Titolo

Subversive spiritualities [[electronic resource] ] : how rituals enact the world / / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-19-991247-5

9786613423139

1-283-42313-8

0-19-979385-9

0-19-979396-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford ritual studies series

Classificazione

LB 58000

LC 29000

LC 42000

Disciplina

201/.44

Soggetti

Rites and ceremonies - Peru

Rites and ceremonies - India

Shamanism - Peru

Shamanism - India

Peru Religious life and customs

India Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The politics of "wilderness" : the nature/culture dualism revisited -- Economics and the making of "natural resources" -- Re-entangling the material and the discursive : quantum physics and agential realism -- The spirit of the gift in the Peruvian Andes : Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta -- Supersessionism and the teaching of agronomy in Peru -- Dancing with the mountain in the Altiplano : the festival of the Ispallas -- The state and feminist missionizing in Bolivia / with Loyda Sanchez -- Beyond absolute time and space : from representation to performativity in rituals -- Fair trade and the possibility of bio-cultural regeneration -- Epilogue : performing the lessons learned.



Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are 'eco-metaphysically true'.