The Handbook of Contemporary AnimismThe Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about animism. This handbook will be invaluable to students and scholars of Religion, Sociology and Anthropology. |
Contents
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Animism and a proposal for a postCartesian anthropology | |
Animism for Tylor | |
defining animism in Tylor and contemporary society | |
Introduction | |
revisiting the anthropology of nature in Amazonia | |
animism as sociocosmological principle in | |
approaching shamans and rock art animically | |
Whence spirit possession? | |
Psychedelics animism and spirituality | |
a Darwinian cognitive account | |
Introduction | |
Towards an animistic science of the Earth | |
animist plant ontologies and ethics | |
Chewong animistic ontology | |
reflections on religion environmentalism | |
toward a phenomenology of the spirits | |
Introduction | |
humananimal transformations among the Siberian Yukaghirs | |
animism totemism and practical | |
Moral foundations of Tlingit cosmology | |
Embodied morality and performed relationships | |
rethinking individual and community in Western | |
Introduction | |
ritual perception and practice among the Bambara in Mali | |
animism fetishism and the cultural foundations | |
Western statue devotion and a matter of power | |
Introduction | |
soul life force spirit | |
Action in cognitive ethology | |
Embodied EcoPaganism | |
an animist research methodology | |
Consciousness wights and ancestors | |
Introduction | |
Animist realism in indigenous novels and other literature | |
Faërie in hypermodernity | |
animism anime fandom and the gods | |
performing the animate universe | |
an incantatory riff | |
Acknowledgements | |
Contributors | |
Index | |
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