Gebundenes Buch

Rethinking Relations and Animism

Personhood and Materiality

Herausgeber: Astor-Aguilera, Miguel; Harvey, Graham

Beschreibung

The chapters in this volume advance debates about relations between humans and things, between scholars and others, and between Modern and Indigenous ontologies. Contributors to this volume bring different perspectives and approaches to bear on questions about animism, personhood, materiality, and relationality.

Autor

Miguel Astor-Aguilera is associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University, USA. An anthropologist by training, his scholarship concentrates on material culture and socio-religious theory. He specializes in Mesoamerican ontology and cross-cultural personhood issues and his publications include "Comparing Indigenous Pilgrimage" (2008), "Latin American Indigenous Cosmovisions" (2016), and The Maya World of Communicating Objects (2010). His current research focuses on Maya ritual specialists in the Yucatan peninsula and their healing practices as related to their ecological behavioral environment. Graham Harvey is professor of religious studies at The Open University, UK. His research and teaching largely concern the rituals and protocols through which various Indigenous people and Pagans engage with the larger than human world. His publications include Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life (2013), The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (2013) and Animism: Respecting the Living World (2nd edition 2017). He is co-editor of the Routledge monograph series "Vitality of Indigenous Religions".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781138562349
• ISBN-10: 1138562343
• Artikelnr.: 54473727