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Book SynopsisIn this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples’ engagement with Christianity and other cosmologies, their own colonial experiences, as well as their ongoing relationships to place and kin. The contributors offer fine-grained ethnographic studies that highlight the complex and pragmatic ways in which Indigenous peoples enact their cosmologies and articulate their identity as forms of affirmation. This collection is a major contribution to the anthropology of religion, religious studies, and Indigenous studies worldwide. Contributors: Anne-Marie Colpron, Robert R. Crépeau, Françoise Dussart, Ingrid Hall, Laurent Jérôme, Frédéric Laugrand, C. James MacKenzie, Caroline Nepton Hotte, Ksenia Pimenova, Sylvie Poirier, Kathryn Rountree, Antonella Tassinari, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
Trade Review"Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics est un ouvrage cohérent qui propose une réelle synergie entre les différents chapitres, ce qui n’est pas toujours le cas pour un ouvrage collectif de ce genre. Il donnera l’occasion aux chercheurs en anthropologie de pousser plus loin leurs réflexions sur la contemporanéité des cosmologies autochtones, notamment à travers une riche diversité et ce, sur le plan à la fois thématique et ethnographique mais aussi théorique. N’importe quel spécialiste ou étudiant qui s’intéresse aux dynamiques religieuses autochtones y trouvera son compte." Émile Duchesne, Anthropologie et Sociétés, Vol. 46, No 2, 2022
Table of Contents1 Indigenous Cosmologies, Entangled Religiosities, and Global Connections 1 A Theoretical Overview FRANÇOISE DUSSART & SYLVIE POIRIER 2 Embracing Christianity, Rejecting Western Individualism? 33 Inuit Leaders and the Limits of Indigenization FRÉDÉRIC LAUGRAND 3 Engaging Religiosities 59 Relationality, Co-existence, and Belonging among Lander Warlpiri, Central Australia PETRONELLA VAARZON-MOREL 4 Making People 87 Manipulating Alterity in the Production of the Person among the Karipuna People of Northern Brazil ANTONELLA TASSINARI 5 Discourses on the Advent of New Times among the Kaingang People of Southern Brazil 111 ROBERT R. CRÉPEAU 6 From Unknown to Hypermediatized 133 Shipibo-Konibo Female Shamans in Western Amazonia ANNE-MARIE COLPRON 7 Tying Down the Soul of a Potato in the Southern Peruvian Andes 157 Performance and Frictions INGRID HALL 8 Negotiating Indigenous-Global Relationships in Contemporary Shamanism 187 The Case of Malta KATHRYN ROUNTREE 9 Indigenous Cosmologies and Social Media 219 Creativity, Self-Representation, and Power of the Image for First Nations Women Artists CAROLINE NEPTON HOTTE & LAURENT JÉRÔME 10 Human Remains and Indigenous Religiosity in the Museum Space 253 Ritual Relations to the Altaian Mummy in the Anokhin National Museum of the Altai Republic, Russia KSENIA PIMENOVA 11 Shaman, Christian, Bureaucrat, Cop 285 Maya Responses to Modern Entanglements C. JAMES MACKENZIE Contributors 311 Index 317"
