The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume

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Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to t

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern "Southern Sudan". It

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