Screen LibraryAnimism in Southeast Asia /
"Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ;
77 |
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| Summary: |
"Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations. Based on original fieldwork, this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon - its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Critically eng |
| Carrier Form: | x, 325 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415713795 041571379X |
| Index Number: | GN471 |
| CLC: | B933 |
| Call Number: | B933/A598 |
| Contents: | Southeast Asian animism in context / Kaj Århem -- Dimensions of animism in Southeast Asia / Guido Sprenger -- Seeing and knowing : metamorphosis and the fragility of species in Chewong animistic ontology / Signe Howell -- Graded personhood : human and non-human actors in the Southeast Asian uplands / Guido Sprenger -- Animism and the hunter's dilemma : hunting, sacrifice and asymmetric exchange among the Katu of Vietnam / Kaj Århem -- Wrestling with spirits, escaping the state : animist ecology and settlement policy in the Central Annamite Cordillera / Nikolas Århem -- Actualizing spir |