Subversive spiritualities : how rituals enact the world / / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin

• Autore: Apffel-Marglin Frédérique
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 201/.44
• Soggetto topico: Rites and ceremonies - Peru; Rites and ceremonies - India; Shamanism - Peru; Shamanism - India
• Soggetto geografico: Peru Religious life and customs; India Religious life and customs
• Classificazione: LB 58000; LC 29000; LC 42000
• 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'.
• Titolo autorizzato: Subversive spiritualities
• ISBN: 0-19-991247-5; 9786613423139; 1-283-42313-8; 0-19-979385-9; 0-19-979396-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817273403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford ritual studies.