Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World 1st Edition Jean Chamel

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031102932
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031102936
• Author(s): Jean Chamel, Yael Dansac

Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s 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.

Table contents:

1. Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction
Part I. Living with More-than-Humans: The Role of Daily Rites
2. Inter-species Interaction Rituals in Yak Herding Practices in Nepal
3. Urban Wixárika and More-than-Human Beings: The Case of Tatéi 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 Buriatia
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 in Estonia: Phenomenological Relationality in Animist Materialism
11. Afterword: In Among the More-than-Humans
Correction to: Relating with More-than-Humans

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