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Book SynopsisThis book draws together anthropological studies of human-animal relations among Indigenous Peoples in three regions of the Americas: the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic. Despite contrasts between the ecologies of the different regions, it finds useful comparisons between the ways that lives of human and non-human animals are entwined in shared circumstances and sentient entanglements. While studies of all three regions have been influential in scholarship on human-animal relations, the regions are seldom brought together. This volume highlights the value of examining partial connections across the American continent between human and other-than-human lives.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic Regions of the Americas Jan Peter Laurens Loovers and Maggie Bolton 2 Moral Gestures: Forms of Life and Forms of Death in Amazonian Waters Carlos Emanuel Sautchuck 3 ‘We Want to Kill Caribou, Not to Live with Them’: Inuit Cosmology and Resistance to Herding Frédéric Laugrand 4 Too Many Onças: Taxonomical Dilemmas among the Karitiana in Southwestern Brazilian Amazon Felipe Vander Velden 5 Pilgrims and Other Sorts of Personifications: Nonhuman Animals as Ritual Participants in Isluga, Northern Chile Penelope Z. Dransart 6 The Fragility of Relations of Domestication: Humans, Llamas, and Unseasonal Snow in the Bolivian Andes Maggie Bolton 7 ‘They Work for Me, I Work for Them’: Investigatory Attunements and Partnerships between Dogs and Gwich’in in Northern Canada Jan Peter Laurens Loovers and Robert P. Wishart Afterword: Concepts that Travel David G. Anderson Index
