Contemporary Indigenous cosmologies and pragmatics / edited by Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dussart, Françoise, editor.

Poirier, Sylvie, 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Indigenous peoples.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, [2021]

Summary:

Thirteen contributors examine Indigenous peoples' negotiations with different cosmologies in today's globalized world.

Contents:

Indigenous cosmologies, entangled religiosities, and global connections: a theoretical overview / Françoise Dussart & Sylvie Poirier

Embracing Christianity, rejecting Western individualism?: Inuit leaders and the limits of indigenization / Frédéric Laugrand

Engaging religiosities: relationality, co-existence, and belonging among Lander Warlpiri, Central Australia / Petronella Vaarzon-Morel

Making people: manipulating alterity in the production of the person among the Karipuna people of northern Brazil / Antonella Tassinari

Discourses on the advent of new times among the Kaingang people of southern Brazil / Robert R. Crépeau

From unknown to hypermediatized: Shipibo-Konibo female shamans in western Australia / Anne-Marie Colpron

Tying down the soul of a potato in the southern Peruvian Andes: performance and frictions / Ingrid Hall

Negotiating indigenous-global relationships in contemporary Shamanism / Kathryn Rountree

Indigenous cosmologies and social media: creativity, self-representation, and power of the image for First Nations women artists / Caroline Nepton Hotte & Laurent Jérôme

Human remains and indigenous religiosity in the museum space: ritual relations to the Altaian mummy in the Anokhim National Museum of the Altai Republic, Russia / Ksenia Pimenova

Shaman, Christian, bureaucrat, cop: Maya responses to modern entanglements / C. James Mackenzie.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dussart, Françoise Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics

ISBN:

9781772125924

177212592X

9781772125931

1772125938

OCLC:

1267412144