ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Different animisms
part II|60 pages
Dwelling in nature/culture
part III|76 pages
Dwelling in larger-than-human communities
part IV|62 pages
Dwelling with(out) things
part V|87 pages
Dealing with spirits
part VI|78 pages
Consciousness and ways of knowing
part VII|77 pages
Animism in performance