Subversive spiritualities : how rituals enact the world / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique.

Series:

Oxford ritual studies.

Oxford ritual studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--Peru.

Rites and ceremonies.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Shamanism--Peru.

Shamanism.

Shamanism--India.

Peru--Religious life and customs.

Peru.

India--Religious life and customs.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are 'eco-metaphysically true'.

Contents:

Introduction

The politics of "wilderness" : the nature/culture dualism revisited

Economics and the making of "natural resources"

Re-entangling the material and the discursive : quantum physics and agential realism

The spirit of the gift in the Peruvian Andes : Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta

Supersessionism and the teaching of agronomy in Peru

Dancing with the mountain in the Altiplano : the festival of the Ispallas

The state and feminist missionizing in Bolivia / with Loyda Sanchez

Beyond absolute time and space : from representation to performativity in rituals

Fair trade and the possibility of bio-cultural regeneration

Epilogue : performing the lessons learned.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-991247-5

9786613423139

1-283-42313-8

0-19-979385-9

0-19-979396-4

OCLC:

922970857