Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas

Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-10-16
Mått159 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498555357

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Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast of Alaska by Erica Hill Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter WhitridgeChapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. ThompsonChapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina HalperinChapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian “Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms asks and attempts to answer some of the big questions facing archaeology today: what is impact and role of the ontological turn in archaeological interpretations of the Indigenous Americas? How are we to understand and recognize multiple forms of agency and animacy? And how can archaeology approach the ontological turn without engaging in neocolonial theorizing that erases, ignores, or claims ownership over Indigenous epistemologies? Baltus and Baires’s volume advances archaeological theorizing about relationality and multiple ontologies in the past and the present. The diverse case studies highlight the vibrancy of past lifeworlds in new and exciting ways.