Relating with more-than-humans : interbeing rituality in a living world / Jean Chamel, Yael Dansac, editors.
Chamel, Jean, editor.; Dansac, Yael, editor.
2022
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Title Relating with more-than-humans : interbeing rituality in a living world / Jean Chamel, Yael Dansac, editors.
ISBN 9783031102943 (electronic bk.)
3031102940 (electronic bk.)
3031102932
9783031102936
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10294-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-10294-3 doi
Call Number GF41
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.2
Summary This books chapters document and analyse a wide variety of ritualized practices in which privileged connections with more-than-human entities pertaining to the natural environment plants, animals, minerals, the essential solvent for life on Earth, the Earth itself, and Nature as a whole are put into effect. In doing so, they emphasize the growing importance of such entities in contemporary ceremonial. In complementary fashion, and to my mind more significantly, they also bear witness to the key role ritual plays in bringing these beings to body and mind by Michael Houseman, Anthropologist and Professor Emeritus, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Universite PSL, France Within the social sciences, other-than-human beings agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to "the living". This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales. Jean Chamel is Senior SNSF Researcher in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland. Yael Dansac is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Series Palgrave studies in anthropology of sustainability.
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1. Relating with More-Than-Humans. Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World. An Introduction
PART 1. LIVING WITH MORE-THAN-HUMANS: THE ROLE OF DAILY RITES
2. Inter-species interaction rituals in yak herding practices in Nepal
3. Urban Wixarika and more-than-human beings: The case of Tatei Niwetsika "Our Mother Corn" in Western Mexico
4. The peasant and the soil in Southwestern French Biodynamic Agriculture: a ritualistic creative relationship entangled in a holistic commitment
PART II. MORE-THAN-HUMAN POLITICS: BELONGING, IDENTITY, INDIGENEITY AND THE RIGHTS OF NATURE
5. Human-resource connections as articulations of belonging in Buryatia
6."Behind-the-curtain work" Animal Ingredients, Divine Collaboration, and Ritual Substitution in West African Healthcare
7. Ritual Animism. Indigenous Performances, Interbeings Ceremonies and Alternative Spiritualities in the Global Rights of Nature Networks
PART III. MORE-THAN-HUMAN SPIRITUALITIES: LIMINALITY, EMBODIMENT AND INTIMATE EXPERIENCES OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
8. Escaping the Modern Predicament: Nature as Refuge and Community in Contemporary Health Practices in Wales, Sweden, and Finland
9. Crossing thresholds with nature spirits: ritual design, liminality, and transformation in Northwestern France
10. Crystals as Other-than-human Persons for New Spirituality Estonians: Phenomenological Relationality in Animist Materialism
11. Afterword: In Among the More-Than-Humans.

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