{"product_id":"animism-in-rainforest-and-tundra-personhood-animals-plants-and-things-in-contemporary-amazonia-and-siberia-9781782385240","title":"Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAmazonia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This thoughtful volume is extraordinarily rich and will prompt all of us interested in these questions to think about them from fresh perspectives.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e • Anthropological Forum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an extremely interesting collection of papers which takes our understanding of animism forward considerably. Pre-scientific ideas abound in religion. The Bible's focus on sacrifice has roots here, and what is 'idolatry' but nature religion giving human characteristics to divinities and even trees, the Asherah.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e • Journal of Beliefs and Values\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This exciting book…offers an excellent introduction to the main theoretical problem that the book addresses—“the anthropology of nature.”… there is a lot of rich material here on how Siberian and Amazonian peoples create lives and communities out of inter-species relations and inter-species communicative practices that involve rural, frontier landscapes…I highly recommend this book for its rich ethnography and theory, and for its fruitful comparative perspective.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e • Sibirica\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephen Hugh-Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tMaps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Animism and Invisible Worlds: The Place of Non-humans in Indigenous Ontologies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eToo Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCarlos Fausto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eRevisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of North-eastern Siberia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRane Willerslev and Olga Ulturgasheva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eAnimism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLaura Rival\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eStories about Evenki People and their Dogs: Communication through Sharing Contexts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTatiana Safonova and István Sántha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eMaking Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLuiz Costa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003e'Spirit-charged' Animals in Siberia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlexandra Lavrillier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eShamans, Animals and Enemies: Human and Non-Human Agency in an Amazonian Cosmos of Alterity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCasey High\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: Spatiality and Objects in the Nenets Tundra Home\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVera Skvirskaja\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eHumanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVanessa Elissa Grotti and Marc Brightman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eMasked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatherine Swancutt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePiers Vitebsky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042218377559,"sku":"9781782385240","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animism-in-rainforest-and-tundra-personhood-animals-plants-and-things-in-contemporary-amazonia-and-siberia-9781782385240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}