Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World (Oxford Ritual Studies),Used

Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World (Oxford Ritual Studies),Used

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Even in the twentyfirst century, some twothirds of the world's peoples quietly live in nonmodern, noncosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the otherthanhuman world continue to be heard, continue to be loved or feared or both, continue to accompany human beings in all their activities. In Subversive Spiritualities, Frdrique ApffelMarglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''ecometaphysically true.'' In other words, they recognize that human beings are in communion with other beings in nature that have agency and are kinds of spiritual intelligences, with whom humans can be in relationship and communion.Ritual is the medium for communicating, reciprocating, creating and working with the otherthanhumans, who daily remind the humans that the world is not for humans' exclusive use. ApffelMarglin argues that when such relationships are appropriately robust, human lifeways are rich, rewarding and, in the contemporary jargon, environmentally sustainable. Her ultimate objective is to ''reentangle'' humans in nature, by promoting a spirituality and ecology of belonging and connection to nature, and an appreciation of animistic perception and ecologies. Along the way she offers provocative and poignant critiques of many assumptions: of the ''development'' paradigm as benign (including feminist forms of development advocacy), of most anthropological and other social scientific understandings of indigenous religions, and of common views about peasant and indigenous agronomy. She concludes with a case study of the fair trade movement, illuminating both its shortcomings (how it echoes some of the assumptions in the development paradigms) and its promise as a way to rekindle community between humans as well as between humans and the otherthanhuman world.

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