Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas (eBook, PDF)

Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms
Redaktion: Baltus, Melissa R.; Baires, Sarah E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881883904
• Artikelnr.: 74398887

Autorenporträt

Melissa R. Baltus is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo. Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast
of Alaska by Erica Hill
Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter
Whitridge
Chapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational
Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. Thompson
Chapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall
of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus
Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and
Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina Halperin
Chapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland
and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian
"Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi