Animism in Southeast Asia /

Animism in Southeast Asia /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Description:	x, 325 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 77 Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 77.
Subject:	Animism -- Southeast Asia. Ethnology -- Southeast Asia. Animism. Ethnology. Southeast Asia -- Religious life and customs. Southeast Asia.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12320826

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Other uniform titles:	Århem, Kaj, Sprenger, Guido, Ingold, Tim, 1948- Howell, Signe. Seeing and knowing. Container of (work)
ISBN:	9780415713795 041571379X 9781315660288
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 engaging with the current standard notion of animism, based on hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies in other regions, it examines the roles of life forces, souls and spirits in local cosmologies and indigenous religion. It proposes an expansion of the concept to societies featuring mixed farming, sacrifice and hierarchy and explores the question of how non-human agents are created through acts of attention and communication, touching upon the relationship between animist ontologies, world religion, and the state"--

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