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Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume I - Therianthropes and Transformation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020) Loot Price: R2,849
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Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume I - Therianthropes and Transformation (Hardcover, 1st...

Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume I - Therianthropes and Transformation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Mathias Guenther

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Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther's two volumes on human-animal relations in San cosmology link "new Animism" with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians. In Volume I, therianthropes and transformations, two manifestations of ontological mutability that are conceptually and phenomenologically linked, are contextualized in broader San myth. Guenther explores the pervasiveness of human-animal hybridity and transformation in San expressive culture (myth, stories and storytelling, ludic dancing and art, ancestral rock art and contemporary easel art), ritual (trance dance curing, female and male rites of passage) and hunting. Transformation is shown to be experienced by humans, particularly via rituals and dancing that evoke animal identity mergers, but also by hunters who may engage with their prey animals in terms of sympathy and inter-subjectivity, particularly through the use of "hunting medicines."

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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: September 2019
First published: 2020
Authors: Mathias Guenther
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-021181-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN: 3-03-021181-9
Barcode: 9783030211813

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