Subversive Spiritualities
How Rituals Enact the World
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2011
264 pages
978-0-19-979396-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.''
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Politics of "Wilderness": The Nature/Culture Dualism Revisited
- 3. Economics and the Making of "Natural Resources"
- 4. Re-entangling the Material and the Discursive: Quantum Physics and Agential Realism
- 5. The Spirit of the Gift in the Peruvian Andes: Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta
- 6. Supersessionism and the Teaching of Agronomy in Peru
- 7. Dancing with the Mountain in the Altiplano: The Festival of the Ispallas
- 8. The State and Feminist Missionizing in Bolivia (with Loyda Sanchez)
- 9. Beyond Absolute Time and Space: From Representation to Performativity in Rituals
- 10. Fair Trade and the Possibility of Bio-cultural Regeneration
- Epilogue: Performing the Lessons Learned
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
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- L
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- N
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- Q
- R
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