Graham Harvey

The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

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Produktbeschreibung

The 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.

Produktdetails

• Acumen Handbooks
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 35mm x 174mm x 246mm
• Gewicht: 1164g
• ISBN-13: 9781844657117
• Artikelnr.: 39130005

Autorenporträt

Graham Harvey is Reader in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. He is author of Animism: Respecting the Living World and editor of Religions in Focus.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Contributors Permissions / Acknowledgements General Introduction, Graham Harvey; SECTION 1: DIFFERENT ANIMISMS Sectional Introduction; 1. We Call it Tradition, Linda Hogan; 2. Animism, Conservation and Immediacy, Danny Naveh and Nurit Bird-David; 3. Animism and a Proposal for a Post-Cartesian Anthropology, Kenneth M. Morrison; 4. Animism for Tylor, Robert A. Segal; 5. Building on Belief: Defining Animism in Tylor and Contemporary Society, Martin D. Stringer; SECTION 2: DWELLING IN NATURE/CULTURE Sectional Introduction; 6. Beyond Nature and Culture, Philippe Descola; 7. The Materiality of Life: Revisiting the Anthropology of Nature in Amazonia, Laura Rival; 8. Metamorphosis and Identity: Chewong Animistic Ontology, Signe Howell; 9. The Ancestral Sensorium and the City: Reflections on Religion, Environmentalism and Citizenship in the Philippines, Paul-Francois Tremlett; 10. The Invisibles: Toward a Phenomenology of the Spirits, David Abram; SECTION 3: DWELLING IN LARGER THAN HUMAN COMMUNITIES Sectional Introduction; 11. Death and Grief in a World of Kin, Deborah Bird Rose; 12. Hunting Animism: Human-Animal Transformations among the Siberian Yukaghirs, Rane Willerslev; 13. Ontology and Ethics in Cree Hunting: Animism, Totemism and Practical Knowledge, Colin Scott; 14. Moral Foundations of Tlingit Cosmology, Fritz Detwiler; 15. Embodied Morality and Performed Relationships, Douglas Ezzy; 16. The Animal Versus the Social: Rethinking Individual and Community in Western Cosmology, Priscilla Stuckey; SECTION 4: DWELLING WITH(OUT) THINGS Sectional Introduction; 17. Being Alive to a World Without Objects, Tim Ingold; 18. Animate Objects: Ritual Perception and Practice among the Bambara in Mali, Tord Olsson; 19. Animism, Fetishism, and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism, Alf Hornborg 20. The New Fetishism: Western Statue Devotion and a Matter of Power, Amy Whitehead; SECTION 5: DEALING WITH SPIRITS Sectional Introduction; 21. "The One-All": The Animist High-God, Rane Willerslev; 22. Shamanism and the Hunters of the Siberian Forest: Soul, Life-force, Spirit, Roberte Hamayon; 23. Bodies, Souls and Powerful Beings: Animism as Socio-Cosmological Principle in an Amazonian society, Isabella Lepri; 24. Exorcising "Spirits": Approaching "Shamans" and Rock Art Animically, Robert J. Wallis; 25. Whence "Spirit Possession"? Paul Christopher Johnson; 26. Psychedelics, Animism and Spirituality, Andy Letcher; 27. Spiritual Beings: A Darwinian, Cognitive Account, Stewart Guthrie; SECTION 6: CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAYS OF KNOWING Sectional Introduction; 28. Sentient Matter, Max Velmans; 29. Towards an Animistic Science of the Earth, Stephan Harding; 30. Talk Amongst the Trees: Animist Plant Ontologies and Ethics, Matthew Hall; 31. Action in Cognitive Ethology, Marc Bekoff; 32. Embodied Eco-Paganism, Adrian Harris; 33. Researching through Porosity: An Animist Research Methodology, M.J. Barrett; 34. Consciousness, Wights and Ancestors, Jenny Blain; SECTION 7: ANIMISM IN PERFORMANCE Sectional Introduction; 35. Nature in the Active Voice, Val Plumwood; 36. Animist Realism in Indigenous Novels and Other Literature, Graham Harvey; 37. The Third Road: Faerie in Hypermodernity, Patrick Curry 38. Objects of Otaku Affection: Animism, Anime Fandom, and the Gods of - Consumerism? Casey Brienza; 39. The Dance of the Return Beat: Performing the Animate Universe, Olu Taiwo; 40. Performance Is Currency in the Deep World's Gift Economy: An Incantatory Riff for a Global Medicine Show, Ronald Grimes; Bibliography; Index

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List of Figures Contributors Permissions / Acknowledgements General Introduction
Graham Harvey; SECTION 1: DIFFERENT ANIMISMS Sectional Introduction; 1. We Call it Tradition
Linda Hogan; 2. Animism
Conservation and Immediacy
Danny Naveh and Nurit Bird-David; 3. Animism and a Proposal for a Post-Cartesian Anthropology
Kenneth M. Morrison; 4. Animism for Tylor
Robert A. Segal; 5. Building on Belief: Defining Animism in Tylor and Contemporary Society
Martin D. Stringer; SECTION 2: DWELLING IN NATURE/CULTURE Sectional Introduction; 6. Beyond Nature and Culture
Philippe Descola; 7. The Materiality of Life: Revisiting the Anthropology of Nature in Amazonia
Laura Rival; 8. Metamorphosis and Identity: Chewong Animistic Ontology
Signe Howell; 9. The Ancestral Sensorium and the City: Reflections on Religion
Environmentalism and Citizenship in the Philippines
Paul-Francois Tremlett; 10. The Invisibles: Toward a Phenomenology of the Spirits
David Abram; SECTION 3: DWELLING IN LARGER THAN HUMAN COMMUNITIES Sectional Introduction; 11. Death and Grief in a World of Kin
Deborah Bird Rose; 12. Hunting Animism: Human-Animal Transformations among the Siberian Yukaghirs
Rane Willerslev; 13. Ontology and Ethics in Cree Hunting: Animism
Totemism and Practical Knowledge
Colin Scott; 14. Moral Foundations of Tlingit Cosmology
Fritz Detwiler; 15. Embodied Morality and Performed Relationships
Douglas Ezzy; 16. The Animal Versus the Social: Rethinking Individual and Community in Western Cosmology
Priscilla Stuckey; SECTION 4: DWELLING WITH(OUT) THINGS Sectional Introduction; 17. Being Alive to a World Without Objects
Tim Ingold; 18. Animate Objects: Ritual Perception and Practice among the Bambara in Mali
Tord Olsson; 19. Animism
Fetishism
and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism
Alf Hornborg 20. The New Fetishism: Western Statue Devotion and a Matter of Power
Amy Whitehead; SECTION 5: DEALING WITH SPIRITS Sectional Introduction; 21. "The One-All": The Animist High-God
Rane Willerslev; 22. Shamanism and the Hunters of the Siberian Forest: Soul
Life-force
Spirit
Roberte Hamayon; 23. Bodies
Souls and Powerful Beings: Animism as Socio-Cosmological Principle in an Amazonian society
Isabella Lepri; 24. Exorcising "Spirits": Approaching "Shamans" and Rock Art Animically
Robert J. Wallis; 25. Whence "Spirit Possession"? Paul Christopher Johnson; 26. Psychedelics
Animism and Spirituality
Andy Letcher; 27. Spiritual Beings: A Darwinian
Cognitive Account
Stewart Guthrie; SECTION 6: CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAYS OF KNOWING Sectional Introduction; 28. Sentient Matter
Max Velmans; 29. Towards an Animistic Science of the Earth
Stephan Harding; 30. Talk Amongst the Trees: Animist Plant Ontologies and Ethics
Matthew Hall; 31. Action in Cognitive Ethology
Marc Bekoff; 32. Embodied Eco-Paganism
Adrian Harris; 33. Researching through Porosity: An Animist Research Methodology
M.J. Barrett; 34. Consciousness
Wights and Ancestors
Jenny Blain; SECTION 7: ANIMISM IN PERFORMANCE Sectional Introduction; 35. Nature in the Active Voice
Val Plumwood; 36. Animist Realism in Indigenous Novels and Other Literature
Graham Harvey; 37. The Third Road: Faerie in Hypermodernity
Patrick Curry 38. Objects of Otaku Affection: Animism
Anime Fandom
and the Gods of - Consumerism? Casey Brienza; 39. The Dance of the Return Beat: Performing the Animate Universe
Olu Taiwo; 40. Performance Is Currency in the Deep World's Gift Economy: An Incantatory Riff for a Global Medicine Show
Ronald Grimes; Bibliography; Index