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Title Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Olga Ulturgasheva
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1. Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 2. Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate:; Chapter 3. Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Chapter 4. Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs; Chapter 5. Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia; Chapter 6. 'Spirit-charged' Animals in Siberia; Chapter 7. Shamans, Animals and Enemies; Chapter 8. Expressions and Experiences of Personhood; Chapter 9. Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia; Chapter 10. Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary Amazonia 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 processesof the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Human-plant relationships -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Human-animal relationships -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Human-animal relationships
Human-plant relationships
Shamanism
Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Form Electronic book
Author Brightman, Marc, editor
Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, editor
Ulturgasheva, Olga, editor
ISBN 9780857454690
0857454692
178238524X
9781782385240