Animism : respecting the living world /
Graham Harvey.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
- xxiv, 248 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-236) and index.
pt. I. From derogatory to critical term -- 1. From primitives to persons -- Stahl's elements -- Hume's sentiments -- Frazer's trees -- Tylor's spirits -- Huxley's antagonism -- Marett's powers -- Freud's projections -- Durkheim's totems -- Mauss's gift -- Piaget's development -- Guthrie's anthropomorphism -- Philosophers' panpsychism -- Hallowell's other-than-human persons -- Anthropologists' revisitation -- Koh�ak's trees -- Goodall's chimpanzees -- Garuba's literature -- Quinn's leavers -- Environmentalists' participation -- Re-cognising animisms -- pt. II. Animist case studies -- 2. Ojibwe language -- Grammar -- Stones -- Thunder -- Seasonal stories -- Ceremonies -- Tobacco greetings -- Waswagoning -- Legs and what's between them -- Living well -- 3. Maori arts -- All our relations -- Evolving relationships -- Violence and passion -- Tapu and noa -- Marae-atea -- Whare nui -- Whare kai -- Ancestral cannibalism -- Animist construction -- Enacting animism -- 4. Aboriginal law and land -- Dreaming and law -- Expressing the dreaming -- Subjects and objects -- Time and events -- Visiting Alice -- 5. Eco-pagan activism -- Defining paganism -- Defining paganism's nature -- Eco-paganism on the road -- Paganism off the road -- Knowing nature -- Gods, fairies and hedgehogs -- pt. III. Animist issues -- 6. Signs of life and personhood -- Animals are people too -- Bird persons -- Fish persons -- Plant persons -- Stone persons -- The elements -- Places -- Things, artefacts, fetishes and masks -- Humans are animals too -- Animals might be human too -- 7. Death -- Death happens, deliberately -- Hunting and domesticating -- Death is a transformation -- Death rituals and myths -- 8. Spirits, powers, creators and souls -- Faeries and other spirits -- Ancestors -- Creators and tricksters -- Life forces -- Witchcraft substances and energies -- Souls -- Embodiment and spirituality -- 9. Shamans -- Shamanic cosmologies -- States of consciousness -- Ecstasy, trance and possession -- Hallucination or vision? -- Eating 'souls' -- Killing life -- Surviving death -- Shamans as mediators and healers -- Animists' antagonists -- Cultural nature and shamans as seers -- 10. Cannibalism -- Accusations of cannibalism -- Real cannibals? -- Arens' myth -- Compassionate cannibalism -- Eating enemies -- Cannibals as monsters, consumers and carers -- Animism and cannibalism -- 11. Totems -- Ojibwe clans -- Updating the old totemism -- Revisiting totemism -- Revisiting other-than-humans -- 12. Elders and ethics -- The good life -- Wisdom -- Initiation -- pt. IV. Animism's challenges -- 13. Environmentalisms -- Modernity's environmentalism -- Depths of green -- Ecofeminist particularity -- Sitting and listening -- Places -- 14. Consciousness -- Solipsism -- Consciousness matters -- Cyber-consciousness -- Knowing bodies matters -- Relational consciousness -- 15. Philosophers and persons -- Personalist persons -- Phenomenological persons -- Feminist and queer persons -- Free and wilful ethical persons -- Other persons -- Quantum persons -- Post-dualist persons -- 16. Conclusion -- Re-cognising modernity -- Re-cognising animism -- Depth and breadth, turtles and hedgehogs.