Animism - Inspecting the Living World

Preface and Acknowledgements xi Part I. FROM DEROGATORY TO CRITICAL TERM From Primitives to Persons 3(30) Stahl's elements 3(1) Hume's sentiments 4(1) Frazer's trees 5(1) Tylor's spirits 5(4) Huxley's antagonism 9(1) Marett's powers 10(1) Freud's projections 10(1) Durkheim's totems 11(1) Mauss's gift 12(2) Piaget's development 14(1) Guthrie's anthropomorphism 15(2) Philosophers' panpsychism 17(1) Hallowell's other-than-human persons 17(3) Anthropologists' revisitation 20(2) Kohak's trees 22(2) Goodall's chimpanzees 24(1) Garuba's literature 25(1) Quinn's leavers 26(1) Environmentalists' participation 27(1) Re-cognising animisms 28(5) Part II. ANIMIST CASE STUDIES Ojibwe Language 33(17) Grammar 34(2) Stones 36(2) Thunder 38(2) Seasonal stories 40(2) Ceremonies 42(1) Tobacco greetings 43(2) Waswagoning 45(1) Legs and what's between them 46(2) Living well 48(2) Maori Arts 50(16) All our relations 52(1) Evolving relationships 52(2) Violence and passion 54(1) Tapu and noa 55(2) Marae-atea 57(1) Whare nui 58(2) Whare kai 60(1) Ancestral cannibalism 61(2) Animist construction 63(1) Enacting animism 64(2) Aboriginal Law and Land 66(16) Dreaming and Law 66(5) Expressing the Dreaming 71(2) Subjects and objects 73(3) Time and events 76(1) Visiting Alice 77(5) Eco-Pagan Activism 82(17) Defining Paganism 84(1) Defining Paganism's nature 85(3) Eco-Paganism on the road 88(2) Paganism off the road 90(2) Knowing nature 92(2) Gods, fairies and hedgehogs 94(5) Part III. ANIMIST ISSUES Signs of Life and Personhood 99(16) Animals are people too 100(2) Bird persons 102(1) Fish persons 103(1) Plant persons 104(2) Stone persons 106(1) The Elements 107(2) Places 109(1) Things, artefacts, fetishes and masks 109(4) Humans are animals too 113(1) Animals might be human too 114(1) Death 115(6) Death happens---deliberately 115(1) Hunting and domesticating 116(1) Death is a transformation 117(1) Death rituals and myths 118(3) Spirits, Powers, Creators and Souls 121(18) Faeries and other spirits 122(3) Ancestors 125(3) Creators and tricksters 128(1) Life forces 129(3) Witchcraft substances and energies 132(3) Souls 135(2) Embodiment and spirituality 137(2) Shamans 139(14) Shamanic cosmologies 140(2) States of consciousness 142(2) Ecstasy, trance and possession 144(1) Hallucination or vision? 145(1) Eating `souls' 146(1) Killing life 147(1) Surviving death 148(1) Shamans as mediators and healers 149(1) Animists' antagonists 150(1) Cultural nature and shamans as seers 151(2) Cannibalism 153(11) Accusations of cannibalism 153(1) Real cannibals? 154(1) Arens' myth 155(2) Compassionate cannibalism 157(3) Eating enemies 160(2) Cannibals as monsters, consumers and carers 162(1) Animism and cannibalism 163(1) Totems 164(5) Ojibwe clans 165(1) Updating the old totemism 166(1) Revisiting totemism 166(2) Revisiting other-than-humans 168(1) Elders and Ethics 169(10) The good life 171(2) Wisdom 173(1) Initiation 173(6) Part IV. ANIMISM'S CHALLENGES Environmentalisms 179(8) Modernity's environmentalism 179(1) Depths of green 180(2) Ecofeminist particularity 182(2) Sitting and listening 184(1) Places 185(2) Consciousness 187(8) Solipsism 187(1) Consciousness matters 188(3) Cyber-consciousness 191(1) Knowing bodies matter 192(1) Relational consciousness 193(2) Philosophers and Persons 195(10) Personalist persons 196(1) Phenomenological persons 197(1) Feminist and queer persons 198(2) Free and wilful ethical persons 200(1) Other persons 200(2) Quantum persons 202(1) Post-dualist persons 203(2) Conclusion 205(8) Re-cognising modernity 205(3) Re-cognising animism 208(2) Depth and breadth, turtles and hedgehogs 210(3) Bibliography 213(24) Index 237