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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: DIFFERENT ANIMISMS
Introduction
1. We call it tradition
2. Animism, conservation and immediacy
3. Animism and a proposal for a post-Cartesian anthropology
4. Animism for Tylor
5. Building on belief: defining animism in Tylor and contemporary society
PART II: DWELLING IN NATURE/CULTURE
Introduction
6. Beyond nature and culture
7. The materiality of life: revisiting the anthropology of nature in Amazonia
8. Metamorphosis and identity: Chewong animistic ontology
9. The ancestral sensorium and the city: reflections on religion, environmentalism and citizenship in the Philippines
10. The invisibles: toward a phenomenology of the spirits
PART III: DWELLING IN LARGER-THAN-HUMAN COMMUNITIES
Introduction
11. Death and grief in a world of kin
12. Hunting animism: human–animal transformations among the Siberian Yukaghirs
13. Ontology and ethics in Cree hunting: animism, totemism and practical knowledge
14. Moral foundations of Tlingit cosmology
15. Embodied morality and performed relationships
16. The animal versus the social: rethinking individual and community in Western cosmology
PART IV: DWELLING WITH(OUT) THINGS
Introduction
17. Being alive to a world without objects
18. Animate objects: ritual perception and practice among the Bambara in Mali
19. Submitting to objects: animism, fetishism, and the cultural foundations of capitalism
20. The new fetishism: Western statue devotion and a matter of power
PART V: DEALING WITH SPIRITS
Introduction
21. “The One-All”: the animist high god
22. Shamanism and the hunters of the Siberian forest: soul, life force, spirit
23. Bodies, souls and powerful beings: animism as socio-cosmological principle in an Amazonian society
24. Exorcizing “spirits”: approaching “shamans” and rock art animically
25. Whence “spirit possession”?
26. Psychedelics, animism and spirituality
27. Spiritual beings: a Darwinian, cognitive account
PART VI: CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAYS OF KNOWING
Introduction
28. Sentient matter
29. Towards an animistic science of the Earth
30. Talk among the trees: animist plant ontologies and ethics
31. Action in cognitive ethology
32. Embodied Eco-Paganism
33. Researching through porosity: an animist research methodology
34. Consciousness, wights and ancestors
PART VII: ANIMISM IN PERFORMANCE
Introduction
35. Nature in the active voice
36. Animist realism in indigenous novels and other literature
37. The third road: Faërie in hypermodernity
38. Objects of otaku affection: animism, anime fandom, and the gods of … consumerism?
39. The Dance of the Return Beat: performing the animate universe
40. Performance is currency in the deep world’s gift economy: an incantatory riff for a global medicine show
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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