{"product_id":"all-my-relatives-9780803299948","title":"All My Relatives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll My Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas’ religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the “ontological turn,” particularly the dual notions of interiority\/soul\/spirit and physicality\/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. \u003ci\u003eAll My Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how a new animist framework can connect and articulate otherwise disparate and obscure elements of Lakota ethnography. Stripped of its problematic nineteenth-century social evolutionary elements and viewed as an ontological or spiritual alternative, this reevaluated concept of animism for a twenty-first-century sensibility provides a compelling lens through which traditional Lakota mythology, dreams and visions, and ceremony may be productively analyzed and more fully understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Posthumus explo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll My Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the anthropological and ethnohistorical research on Lakota religion. It sets several standards for the field, showcasing the richness of sources, the complexity of theological Lakota argumentation, and how these sources can be analyzed in a meaningful way.\"—Sebastian Braun, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this superb ethnography of North American animism, David Posthumus paints a vivid and poetic picture of what it meant for the nineteenth-century Lakota Sioux to live in a world beyond the human that they shared with scores of animal persons and spirits. A remarkable achievement.”—Philippe Descola, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Nature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll My Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e provides us with a look into the core beliefs and practices of the Lakota people from an ontological view as well as an ethnographic one. Posthumus's firm grasp of Lakota history and culture adds clarity and historical significance to text, which is vital to understanding the Lakota people, their beliefs, and their rituals.\"—Victoria Sprague, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a must-read for the student of Lakota ontology, belief, and ritual. Posthumus adds to the field of collected works that capture once again the adage, 'We have much to learn from the American Indian.'\"—Maka Akan Najin Clifford, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll My Relative\u003c\/i\u003es is a work that challenges the modern West's collective memory of American Indian spiritual beliefs, a relic of nineteenth-century Christian colonialism through missionary enterprises. Most impressive is the author's use of Lakota language to offer a more accurate translation of words and phrases that the Christian missionaries defined and employed to portray Lakota religion as void of any spiritual value. To the contrary, Posthumus argues that in an animist ontology, the principle of relatedness is at the heart of Lakota spirituality.\"—Lisa Barnett, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The serious reader will be richly rewarded in working through the book given Posthumus's sophisticated explication of Lakota interspecies relations and their implications for ritual enactment. . . . His work clearly demonstrates the promise of the new animism for indigenous research, and its application to Lakota lifeways specifically, and to Native American sacred traditions in general.\"—Fritz Detwiler, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The subject of Lakota ontology, belief, and ritual has enduring value and significance for all who are interested in the Sioux, in the literature of Black Elk, and in Plains ethnohistory generally. . . . \u003ci\u003eAll My Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e is very strong in its command of Lakota sources, notably the writings of the Delorias, of ethnohistorical records, and of relevant secondary sources.”—Jennifer S. H. Brown, professor emerita of history at the University of Winnipeg and editor of \u003ci\u003eOjibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Hallowell, Descola, Ontology, and Phenomenology\u003cbr\u003e 2. Situated Animism and Lakota Relational Ontology\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Living Rock, Grandfather of All Things\u003cbr\u003e 4. Persons and Transformation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Spirits and Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Mythology\u003cbr\u003e 7. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Dreams and Visions\u003cbr\u003e 8. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Ritual\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Dynamics of Life Movement\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Lakota Terms and Phrases\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405304799575,"sku":"9780803299948","price":73.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803299948.jpg?v=1730489683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-my-relatives-9780803299948","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}