Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Subversive Spiritualities

How Rituals Enact the World

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.''

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780199793860
• ISBN-10: 0199793867
• Artikelnr.: 36933130

Autorenporträt

Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Smith College

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The Politics of ''Wilderness'': The Nature/Culture Dualism
Revisited
* Chapter 2: Economics and the Making of ''Natural Resources''
* Chapter 3: Re-entangling the Material and the Discursive: Quantum
Physics and Agential Realism
* Chapter 4: The Spirit of the Gift in the Peruvian Andes: Yarqa Aspiy
in Quispillacta
* Chapter 5: Supersessionism and the Teaching of Agronomy in Peru
* Chapter 6: Dancing with the Mountain in the Altiplano: The Festival
of the Ispallas
* Chapter 7: The State and Feminist Missionizing in Bolivia (with Loyda
Sanchez)
* Chapter 8: Beyond Absolute Time and Space: From Representation to
Performativity in Rituals
* Chapter 9: Fair Trade and the Possibility of Biocultural Regeneration
* Epilogue: Performing the Lessons Learned
* Appendix
* Bibliography