Animism in Southeast Asia

Herausgeber: Arhem, Kaj; Sprenger, Guido

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious ethnographic research, the book is a significant contribution to anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of animism in the humanities and social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780415713795
• ISBN-10: 041571379X
• Artikelnr.: 38142226

Autorenporträt

Kaj Århem is Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His previously published books include: Makuna: Portrait of an Amazonian People (1998); Ethnographic Puzzles (2000) and The Katu Village (2010). Guido Sprenger is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University, Germany. He has previously published on ritual, exchange, human-environment relations, kinship and social morphology, cultural identity, and sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Introductory 1. Southeast Asian Animism in Context 2. Dimensions
of Animism in Southeast Asia Part Two: Case Studies - Mainland and The
Philippines 3. Seeing and Knowing: Metamorphosis and the Fragility of
Species in Chewong Animistic Ideology 4. Graded Personhood: Human and
Non-human Actors in the Southeast Asian Uplands 5. Animism and the Hunter's
Dilemma: Hunting, Sacrifice and Asymmetric Exchange Among the Katu of
Vietnam 6. Wrestling With Spirits, Escaping the State: Animist Ecology and
Settlement Policy in the Annamite Cordillera 7. Actualizing Spirits: Ifugao
Animism as Onto-praxis Part Three: Case Studies - Insular Southeast Asia
8. Relatedness and Alterity in Bentian Human-spirit Relations 9. The
Dynamics of the Cosmic Conversation: Beliefs bout Spirits among the Kelabit
and Penan of the Upper Baram River, Sarawak 10. Animism and Anxiety:
Religious Conversion among the Kelabit of Sarawak 11. Boundaries of
Humanity: Non-human Others and Animist Ontology in Eastern Indonesia 12.
Gods and Spirits in the Wetu Telu Religion of Lombok 13. Impaling Spirit:
Three Categories of Ontological Domain in Eastern Indonesia Part Four:
Concluding 14. Southeast-Asian Animism: A Dialogue with Amerindian
Perspectivism 15. End Comment: To Conclude in the Spirit of Rebirth, or, a
Note on Animic Anthropo-ontogenesis