Indigenous Religions: Critical Concepts on Religious Studies#
Edited by Graham Harvey and Amy Whitehead
Volume 1: Place, Language, and Community
Contents
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction to volume 1
1. Bjorn Ola Tafjord, âIndigenous Religion(s) as an Analytical Categoryâ, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 25, 2013, 221-243.
2. Mary C. Churchill, âToward a Scholarship of Liberation: Arvind Sharmaâs A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religionâ, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 79.4, 2011, 795-802.
3. Harvey, Graham, âGuesthood as Ethical Decolonising Research Methodâ, Numen 50, 2, 2003, 125-146.
Part 1. Place
4. Deborah Bird Rose, âDreaming Ecology: Beyond the Betweenâ, Religion & Literature 40, 1, 2008, 109-122.
5. Martin W. Ball, â"People Speaking Silently to Themselves": An Examination of Keith Basso's Philosophical Speculations on "Sense of Place" in Apache Culturesâ, American Indian Quarterly 26, 3, 2002, 460-478.
6. Siv Ellen Kraft, âThe Making of a Sacred Mountain. Meanings of Nature and Sacredness in S¡pmi and Northern Norwayâ, Religion 40, 1, 2010, 53-61.
7. Graham Harvey, âIndigenising in a Globalised World: The Re-Seeding of Belonging to Landsâ Worldviews 20, 2016, 300â"310.
8. Vanessa Watts, âIndigenous Place-thought & Agency Amongst Humans and Non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go On a European World Tour!)â, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2, 1, 2013, 20-34.
9. Thomas F. King, âU.S. Government Burdens on the Exercise of Traditional Religions: Two Cases Provide Conflicting Interpretationsâ International Journal of Cultural Property 18, 2011, 393â"396.
Part 2. Language
10. Tisa Wenger, â"We Are Guaranteed Freedom": Pueblo Indians and the Category of Religion in the 1920âsâ, History of Religions 45, 2, 2005, 89-113.
11. Jace Weaver, âThe Mystery of Language: N. Scott Momaday, An Appreciationâ, Studies in American Indian Literatures 20, 4, 2008, 76-86.
12. Seth Schermerhorn, âOâodham Songscapes: Journeys to Magdalena Remembered in Songâ, Journal of the Southwest 58, 2, 2016, 237-260.
13. Sylvia Moore âA Trickster Tale About Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in University-Based Programsâ, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2, 2012, 324â"330.
14. Amba J. Sepie âConversing with Some Chickadees: Cautious Acts of Ontological Translationâ, Literature and Medicine 32, 2, 2014, 277-298.
Part 3. Community
15. Greg Johnson, âAuthenticity, Invention, Articulation: Theorizing Contemporary Hawaiian Traditions from the Outsideâ, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 20, 2008, 243-258.
16. Sylvia Marcos, âMesoamerican Womenâs Indigenous Spirituality: Decolonising Religious Beliefsâ Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 25, 2, 2009, 25-45
17. Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez âThe Truth of Experience and Its Communication: Reflections on Mapuche Epistemologyâ, Anthropological Theory 15, 2, 2015, 141â"157.
18. Steven Engler, âUmbanda and Hybridityâ Numen 56, 2009, 545-577.
19. Dennis Kelley, â"Our Ancestors Paddle With Us": Chumash and Makah Indian "Canoe Culture"â, Religious Studies and Theology 30, 2, 2011, 189â"207.
20. Piers Vitebsky and Anatoly Alekseyev, âCasting Timeshadows: Pleasure and Sadness of Moving among Nomadic Reindeer Herders in north-east Siberiaâ, Mobilities 10, 4, 2015, 518-530.
Volume 2: World-making, cosmology, ecology and life-ways
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to volume 2
Part 1. World-making (through ritual, performance, song â" brings worlds into being)
21. Greg Sarris, âBluebellyâ, Bay Nature Jan-Mar, 2011.
22. Lawrence W. Gross, âThe Trickster and World Maintenance: An Anishinaabe Reading of Louise Erdrichâs Tracksâ, Studies in American Indian Literatures 17, 3, 48-66.
23. Viveiros de Castro, âExchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologiesâ, Common Knowledge 10, 3, 2004, 463-484
24. Irene Lara, âLatina Health Activist-Healers Bridging Body and Spiritâ, Women & Therapy 31, 1, 2008, 21-40.
25. David Shorter, âHunting for History in Potam Pueblo: A Yoeme (Yaqui) Indian Deer Dancing Epistemologyâ, Folklore 118, 3, 2007, 282-306.
Part 2. Cosmology (examples of cosmologies and theories)
26. Johannes Neurath, âSifting Ontologies in Huichol Ritual and Artâ, Anthropology and Humanism 40, 1, 2015, 58â"71.
27. Penelope S. Bernard â"Living Water" in Nguni Healing Traditions, South Africaâ, Worldviews 17, 2013, 138-149.
28. Michel Graulich, âAztec Human Sacrifice as Expiationâ, History of Religions 39, 4, 2000, 352-371.
29. Ian J. McNiven, âSaltwater People: Spiritscapes, Maritime Rituals and the Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Seascapesâ, World Archaeology 35, 3, 2003, 329-349.
30. Matthew A. Taylor, â"Contagious Emotions" and the Ghost Dance Religion: Mooneyâs Science, Black Elkâs Feverâ ELH 81, 3, 2014, 1055-1082.
31. Sarah M. Strong, âThe Most Revered of Foxes: Knowledge of Animals and Animal Power in an Ainu Kamui Yukarâ, Asian Ethnology 68, 1, 2009, 27-54.
32. Dimitri Tsintjilonis âThe Flow of Life in Buntao: Southeast Asian Animism Reconsideredâ, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 160, 4, 2004, 425-455.
Part 3. Ecology and life-ways
33. Danny Naveh and Nurit Bird-David, âAnimism, Conservation and Immediacyâ, in Graham Harvey (ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), pp. 27-37.
34. Jace Weaver, âMisfit Messengers: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Climate Changeâ Journal of the American Academy of Religion 83, 2, 2015, 320-335.
35. David S. Walsh, âThe Nature of Food: Indigenous Dene Foodways and Ontologies in the Era of Climate Changeâ, Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 26, 2015, 225-249.
36. James Treat, âPeyote Womanâ, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 10, 2, 2016, 141-149.
37. Natalia Moragas Segura and Elena Mazzetto, âContexts of Offerings and Ritual Maize in the Pictographic Record in Central Mexicoâ, Religion and Food, Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 26, 2015, 82-100.
38. Colin Scott, âSpirit and Practical Knowledge in the Person of the Bear among Wemindji Cree Huntersâ, Ethnos 71, 1, 2006, 51-66.
39. Robin Wall Kimmerer, âSearching for Synergy: Integrating Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Science Educationâ, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2, 2012, 317â"323.
40. Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye, âSalvaging Nature: The Akan Religio-Cultural Perspectiveâ, Worldviews 13, 2009, 251-282.
Volume 3: Spirits, possession and witchery
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to volume 3
Part 1. Spirits
41. Edith Turner, â"This Is My Profession"â"Changes in African Ritual Consciousness over Thirty-One Years", Anthropology and Humanism 36, 1, 2011, 7-17.
42. Eduarda Viveiros De Castro, âThe Crystal Forest: Notes on the Ontology of
Amazonian Spiritsâ, Inner Asia 9, 2007, 153â"172.
43. Bettina E. Schmidt, âSpirit Mediumship in Brazil: The Controversy about Semi-Conscious Mediumsâ, DISKUS 17, 2, 2015, 38-53.
44. Andrew Dawson, âSpirit Possession in a New Religious Context: The Umbandization of Santo Daimeâ, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 15, 4, 2012, 60-84.
Part 2. Mediumship. Possession and other relations
45. Nurit Bird-David, âNo Past, No Present: A Critical-Nayaka Perspective on Cultural Rememberingâ, American Ethnologist 31, 3, 2004, 406-421.
46. Homayun Sidky âThe State Oracle of Tibet, Spirit Possession, and Shamanismâ, Numen 58, 2011, 71-99.
47. Martin Holbraad, âDefinitive Evidence, from Cuban Godsâ, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), 2008, S93-S109
48. Robin M. Wright, âAssault Sorceryâ, Oxford Handbook Online, June 2015.
49. Dan Rosengren, âTransdimensional Relations: On Human-spirit Interaction in the Amazonâ, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12, 4, 2006, 803-816.
50. Margaret Lyngdoh, âThe Vanishing Hitchhiker in Shillong: Khasi Belief Narratives and Violence Against Womenâ, Asian Ethnology 71, 2, 2012, 207-224.
Part 3. Witchery
51. Monica Avila, âLeslie Marmon Silkoâs CEREMONY: Witchery and Sacrifice of Self", Explicator 67, 1, 2008, 53-55.
52. Thomas J. Csordas, âHealing and the Human Condition: Scenes from the Present Moment in Navajolandâ, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 28, 2004, 1-14.
53. Dale Wallace, âRethinking Religion, Magic and Witchcraft in South Africa: From Colonial Coherence to Postcolonial Conundrumâ, Journal for the Study of Religion 28, 1, 2015, 23-51.
54. Robert Blunt, âOracles, Trauma, and the Limits of Contextualization: Naming the Witch in Contemporary Kenyaâ Journal of Religion in Africa 43, 2013, 329-349.
55. T. S. Petrus and D. L. Bogopa, âNatural and Supernatural: Intersections Between the Spiritual and Natural Worlds in African Witchcraft and Healing with Reference to Southern Africaâ, The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology 7, 1, 2007, 1-10.
56. Adam Ashforth, âMuthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating
âAfrican Scienceâ in Post-Apartheid South Africa?â, Social Dynamics, 31, 2, 2005, 211-242
57. Tabona Shoko, âKaranga Traditional Medicine and Healingâ, African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines 4, 4, 2007, 501-509.
Volume 4: Animism, Totemism and Fetishism
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to volume 4
Part 1. Animism
58. Tim Ingold, âRethinking the Animate, Re-Animating Thoughtâ, Ethnos 71, 1, 2006, 9-20.
59. Rane Willerslev, âTaking Animism Seriously, but Perhaps Not Too Seriously?â, Religion and Society: Advances in Research 4, 2013, 41-57.
60. Marshall Sahlins, âOn the Ontological Scheme of Beyond Nature and Cultureâ, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4, 1, 2014, 281-290.
61. Nurit Bird-David, âAnimistic Epistemology: Why do Some Hunter-Gatherers Not Depict Animals?â, Ethnos 71, 1, 2006, 33-50.
62. Morten Axel Pedersen, âMultiplicity Without Myth: Theorising Darhad Perspectivismâ Inner Asia 9, 2, 2007, 311-328.
63. Laura Rival, âThe Materiality of Life: Revisiting the Anthropology of Nature in Amazoniaâ, INDIANA 29, 2012, 127-143.
Part 2. Totemism and shamanism
64. Deborah Rose, âAn Indigenous Philosophical Ecology: Situating the Human", The Australian Journal of Anthropology 16, 3, 2005, 294-305.
65. Ian Keen, âAncestors, Magic, and Exchange in Yolngu Doctrines: Extensions and the Person in Time and Spaceâ, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12, 3, 2006, 515-530.
66. Charles St©panoff, âDevouring Perspectives: On Cannibal Shamans in Siberiaâ, Inner Asia 11, 2009, 283-307.
67. Roberte N. Hamayon, âThe Three Duties of Good Fortune: "Luck" as a Relational Process among Hunting Peoples of the Siberian Forest in Pre-Soviet Timesâ, Social Analysis 56, 1, 2012, 99-116.
68. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, âRethinking Identity and Feminism: Contributions of Mapuche Women and Machi from Southern Chileâ, Hypatia 18, 2, 2003, 32-57.
69. Joslyn Cassady, â"Strange Things Happen to Non-Christian People": Human-Animal Transformation among the Inupiat of Arctic Alaskaâ, American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32, 1, 2008, 83-101.
Part 3. Fetishism
70. Alf Hornborg, âAnimism, Fetishism, and Objectivism as Strategies for Knowing (or not Knowing) the Worldâ, Ethnos 71, 1, 2006, 21-32.
71. Markus Balkenhol, âWorking with the Ancestors. The Kabra Mask and the "African Renaissance" in the Afro-Surinamese Winti Religionâ, Material Religion 11, 2, 2015, 250-254.
72. Roger Sansi-Roca, âThe Hidden Life of Stones: Historicity, Materiality and the Value of Candombl© Objects in Bahiaâ, Journal of Material Culture 10, 2005, 139-156.
73. Paja Faudree, âTales from the Land of Magic Plants: Textual Ideologies and Fetishes of Indigeneity in Mexicoâs Sierra Mazatecaâ, Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, 3, 2015, 838-869.
74. David Graeber, âFetishism as Social Creativity: or, Fetishes are Gods in the Process of Constructionâ, Anthropological Theory 5, 4, 2005, 407â"438.
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