Relating with More-than-Humans

Interbeing Rituality in a Living World

Jean Chamel, Yael Dansac

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Palgrave Macmillan
01 February 2024

Tribal religions; Spiritualism; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability

Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to “the living”.

This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings’ legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales. Chapters ""Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World—An Introduction"" and ""Ritual Animism: Indigenous Performances, Interbeings Ceremonies and Alternative Spiritualities in the Global Rights of Nature Networks"" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Edited by: Jean Chamel, Yael Dansac
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2022 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9783031102967
ISBN 10: 3031102967
Series: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean Chamel is Senior SNSF Researcher in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Yael Dansac is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Reviews for Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World

“One greatest strength of the book is the roughly equal balance between studies focused on indigeneous studies ... and those concerned with spiritual practice in the cosmopolitan and urbanized west. ... This collection stands out for both its diversity and its depth of methodological and theoretical sophistication. I look forward to teaching these exciting case studies in the semester ahead.” (Dan McKanan, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Vol. 8 (1-2), 2024)