All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual - Couverture souple

Posthumus, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496230396 ISBN 13 : 9781496230393

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2022

Synopsis

In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, that includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how a new animist framework can connect and articulate otherwise disparate and obscure elements of Lakota ethnography. Stripped of its problematic nineteenth-century social evolutionary elements and viewed as an ontological or spiritual alternative, this reevaluated concept of animism for a twenty-first-century sensibility provides a compelling lens through which traditional Lakota mythology, dreams and visions, and ceremony may be productively analyzed and more fully understood.

Posthumus explores how Lakota animist beliefs permeate the understanding of the real world in relation to such phenomena as the personhood of rocks, ghosts or spirits of deceased humans and animals, meteorological phenomena, familiar spirits or spirit helpers, and medicine bundles. All My Relatives offers new insights into traditional Lakota culture for a deeper and more enduring understanding of indigenous cosmology, ontology, and religion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David C. Posthumus is an associate professor of anthropology and Native American studies at the University of South Dakota.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496230396
• ISBN 13: 9781496230393
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
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• Personne responsable: non disponible