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Animals and Ancestors - An Ethnography (Paperback, Revised)
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Animals and Ancestors - An Ethnography (Paperback, Revised)
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Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have
co-existed in close proximity. Humans have always recognized both
their kinship with animals and their fundamental differences, as
animals have always been a threat to humans' well-being. The
relationship, therefore, has been complex, intimate, reciprocal,
personal, and -- crucially -- ambivalent. It is hardly surprising
that animals evoke strong emotions in humans, both positive and
negative.
This companion volume to Morris' important earlier work, The Power
of Animals, is a sustained investigation of the Malawi people's
sacramental attitude to animals, particularly the role that animals
play in life-cycle rituals, their relationship to the divinity and
to spirits of the dead. How people relate to and use animals speaks
volumes about their culture and beliefs. This book overturns the
ingrained prejudice within much ethnographic work, which has often
dismissed the pivotal role animals play in culture, and shows that
personhood, religion, and a wide range of rituals are informed by,
and even dependent upon, human-animal relations.
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