“Animism” revisited: personhood, environment, and relational epistemology

N Bird-David - Current anthropology, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
Current anthropology, 1999journals.uchicago.edu
“Animism” is projected in the literature as simple religion and a failed epistemology, to a
large extent because it has hitherto been viewed from modernist perspectives. In this paper
previous theories, from classical to recent, are critiqued. An ethnographic example of a
hunter-gatherer people is given to explore how animistic ideas operate within the context of
social practices, with attention to local constructions of a relational personhood and to its
relationship with ecological perceptions of the environment. A reformulation of their animism …
“Animism” is projected in the literature as simple religion and a failed epistemology, to a large extent because it has hitherto been viewed from modernist perspectives. In this paper previous theories, from classical to recent, are critiqued. An ethnographic example of a hunter‐gatherer people is given to explore how animistic ideas operate within the context of social practices, with attention to local constructions of a relational personhood and to its relationship with ecological perceptions of the environment. A reformulation of their animism as a relational epistemology is offered.
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