Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms

Melissa R. Baltus; Sarah E. Baires

doi:10.5771/9781498555364

Summary

In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5535-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5536-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 168
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Animal Geographies And Archaeology No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Note No access
4. References No access
1. Dogs In The Inuit Lifeworld No access
2. The Lifeworld Of Inuit Dogs No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. References No access
1. Fisher-gatherer-hunters Of Southern Florida No access
2. Making Relationships No access
3. Relational Ontologies And Southern Florida No access
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1. Relational Ontologies: Problems And Potentials No access
2. The Relational City In The Floodplain No access
3. Building Pots, Building Relationships No access
4. Re-relating Through Pottery No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Biography Of A Living Mountain No access
2. Spiritual Co-essences And Shifting Relations Of Power No access
3. The Making Of History No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Note No access
6. References No access
1. Subject And Terminology No access
2. Questions About Native Notions Of Soul-like Essences No access
3. Materials, Methods, And Sample Adequacy And Representativeness No access
4. Ohio Hopewell Concepts Of Soul-like Essences In Light Of Those Of Historic Woodland And Plains Native Americans No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
Conclusion No access Pages 153 - 160
Index No access Pages 161 - 164
About the Authors No access Pages 165 - 168