Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772125825)

In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples' negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples' engagement with Christianity and other cosmologies, their own colonial experiences, as well as their ongoing relationships to place and kin. The contributors offer fine-grained ethnographic studies that highlight the complex and pragmatic ways in which Indigenous peoples enact their cosmologies and articulate their identity as forms of affirmation. This collection is a major contribution to the anthropology of religion, religious studies, and Indigenous studies worldwide.

Contributors: Anne-Marie Colpron, Robert R. Crépeau, Françoise Dussart, Ingrid Hall, Laurent Jérôme, Frédéric Laugrand, C. James MacKenzie, Caroline Nepton Hotte, Ksenia Pimenova, Sylvie Poirier, Kathryn Rountree, Antonella Tassinari, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples' negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Ten ethnographic examples illustrate how Indigenous cosmologies become entangled with contemporaneity.

Author: Françoise Dussart
ISBN-10: 1772125822
ISBN-13: 9781772125825
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d