Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas
Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2017
190 pages
978-1-4985-5536-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 b/w illustrations; 6 b/w photos; 2 tables;
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-5536-4 (9781498555364)
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Melissa R. Baltus | Sarah E. Baires
Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas
Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms
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Persons
Melissa R. Baltus is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo.
Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Content
Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast of Alaska by Erica Hill
Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter Whitridge
Chapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. Thompson
Chapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus
Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina Halperin
Chapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian "Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi
Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter Whitridge
Chapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. Thompson
Chapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus
Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina Halperin
Chapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian "Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi
