Relating with More-than-Humans, 1st ed. 2022 Interbeing Rituality in a Living World Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability Series
Within the social sciences, other-than-human being?s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to ?the living?.
This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings? legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales.Jean Chamel is Senior SNSF Researcher in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Yael Dansac is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Addresses how various societies and subcultures use ritual to connect effectively with other-than-human beings
Uses global case studies across a diversity of contexts
Examines both indigenous cultures and modern, Western spiritual sub-cultures to support its argument
Date de parution : 02-2024
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Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 02-2023
Ouvrage de 254 p.
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Prix indicatif 126,59 €
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