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Based on original fieldwork, this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon - its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious ethnographic research, the book is a significant contribution to anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of animism in the humanities and social sciences.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One: Introductory 1. Southeast Asian Animism in Context
2. Dimensions of Animism in Southeast Asia
Part Two: Case Studies - Mainland and The Philippines 3. Seeing and Knowing: Metamorphosis and the Fragility of Species in Chewong Animistic Ideology 4. Graded Personhood: Human and Non-human Actors in the Southeast Asian Uplands 5. Animism and the Hunter's Dilemma: Hunting, Sacrifice and Asymmetric Exchange Among the Katu of Vietnam 6. Wrestling With Spirits, Escaping the State: Animist Ecology and Settlement Policy in the Annamite Cordillera 7. Actualizing Spirits: Ifugao Animism as Onto-praxis
Part Three: Case Studies - Insular Southeast Asia 8. Relatedness and Alterity in Bentian Human-spirit Relations 9. The Dynamics of the Cosmic Conversation: Beliefs bout Spirits among the Kelabit and Penan of the Upper Baram River, Sarawak 10. Animism and Anxiety: Religious Conversion among the Kelabit of Sarawak 11. Boundaries of Humanity: Non-human Others and Animist Ontology in Eastern Indonesia 12. Gods and Spirits in the Wetu Telu Religion of Lombok 13. Impaling Spirit: Three Categories of Ontological Domain in Eastern Indonesia
Part Four: Concluding 14. Southeast-Asian Animism: A Dialogue with Amerindian Perspectivism 15. End Comment: To Conclude in the Spirit of Rebirth, or, a Note on Animic Anthropo-ontogenesis
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Kaj Århem is Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His previously published books include:
Makuna: Portrait of an Amazonian People (1998);
Ethnographic Puzzles (2000) and
The Katu Village (2010).
Guido Sprenger is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University, Germany. He has previously published on ritual, exchange, human-environment relations, kinship and social morphology, cultural identity, and sexuality.
