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Animism in Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
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Animism in Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and
personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have
seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now
discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions
of human-environment relations. Based on original fieldwork, this
book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and
peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of
the phenomenon - its diversity and underlying commonalities and its
resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Critically
engaging with the current standard notion of animism, based on
hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies in other regions, it
examines the roles of life forces, souls and spirits in local
cosmologies and indigenous religion. It proposes an expansion of
the concept to societies featuring mixed farming, sacrifice and
hierarchy and explores the question of how non-human agents are
created through acts of attention and communication, touching upon
the relationship between animist ontologies, world religion, and
the state. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious
ethnographic research, the book is a significant contribution to
anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of
animism in the humanities and social sciences.
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