Subversive spiritualities : how rituals enact the world

Subversive spiritualities : how rituals enact the world / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin.

In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the Indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are 'eco-metaphysically true'.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Oxford ritual studies.
Subjects:
Rites and ceremonies > Peru.
Rites and ceremonies > India.
Shamanism > Peru.
Shamanism > India.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Shamanism.
Rites and ceremonies
Shamanism
Ritual
Spiritualität
Naturgefühl
Peru > Religious life and customs.
India > Religious life and customs.
India
Peru
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The politics of "wilderness" : the nature/culture dualism revisited
  • Economics and the making of "natural resources"
  • Re-entangling the material and the discursive : quantum physics and agential realism
  • The spirit of the gift in the Peruvian Andes : Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta
  • Supersessionism and the teaching of agronomy in Peru
  • Dancing with the mountain in the Altiplano : the festival of the Ispallas
  • The state and feminist missionizing in Bolivia / with Loyda Sanchez
  • Beyond absolute time and space : from representation to performativity in rituals
  • Fair trade and the possibility of bio-cultural regeneration
  • Epilogue : performing the lessons learned.

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