From the Book - Regular Print
pt. I. From derogatory to critical term
1. From primitives to persons
Guthrie's anthropomorphism
Philosophers' panpsychism
Hallowell's other-than-human persons
Anthropologists' revisitation
Environmentalists' participation
pt. II. Animist case studies
Legs and what's between them
4. Aboriginal law and land
Defining paganism's nature
Gods, fairies and hedgehogs.
6. Signs of life and personhood
Things, artefacts, fetishes and masks
Animals might be human too
Death happens, deliberately
Hunting and domesticating
Death is a transformation
8. Spirits, powers, creators and souls
Faeries and other spirits
Witchcraft substances and energies
Embodiment and spirituality
Ecstasy, trance and possession
Shamans as mediators and healers
Cultural nature and shamans as seers
Accusations of cannibalism
Compassionate cannibalism
Cannibals as monsters, consumers and carers
Updating the old totemism
Revisiting other-than-humans
pt. IV. Animism's challenges
Modernity's environmentalism
Ecofeminist particularity
15. Philosophers and persons
Feminist and queer persons
Free and wilful ethical persons
Depth and breadth, turtles and hedgehogs.