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Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume I
Therianthropes and Transformation
Buch von Mathias Guenther
Sprache: Englisch

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Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther¿s two volumes on human-animal relations in San cosmology link ¿new Animism¿ with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians.

In Volume I, therianthropes and transformations, two manifestations of ontological mutability that are conceptually and phenomenologically linked, are contextualized in broader San myth. Guenther explores the pervasiveness of human-animal hybridity and transformation in San expressive culture (myth, stories and storytelling, ludic dancing and art, ancestral rock art and contemporary easel art), ritual (trance dance curing, female and male rites of passage) and hunting. Transformation is shown to be experienced by humans, particularly via rituals and dancing that evoke animal identity mergers, but also by hunters who may engage with their prey animals in terms of sympathy and inter-subjectivity, particularly through the use of ¿hunting medicines.¿
Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther¿s two volumes on human-animal relations in San cosmology link ¿new Animism¿ with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians.

In Volume I, therianthropes and transformations, two manifestations of ontological mutability that are conceptually and phenomenologically linked, are contextualized in broader San myth. Guenther explores the pervasiveness of human-animal hybridity and transformation in San expressive culture (myth, stories and storytelling, ludic dancing and art, ancestral rock art and contemporary easel art), ritual (trance dance curing, female and male rites of passage) and hunting. Transformation is shown to be experienced by humans, particularly via rituals and dancing that evoke animal identity mergers, but also by hunters who may engage with their prey animals in terms of sympathy and inter-subjectivity, particularly through the use of ¿hunting medicines.¿
Über den Autor

Mathias Guenther is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is the author of over 100 journal articles and six books, including Tricksters and Tracers: Bushman Religion and Society (1999).

Zusammenfassung

Applies the New Animist paradigm developed after Anthropology's ontological turn to African hunter-gatherer societies

Brings together considerable fieldwork with historical and interdisciplinary Khoisan Studies framework to explore experiential, cultural, and psychological dimensions of transformation

Particularly considers art, rituals experienced by both males and females, trance and ludic dance, and hunting

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Therianthropes.- 3. Transformation in Myth.- 4. Therianthropes and Transformation in San Art.- 5. Transformation in Ritual.- 6. Animals in San Dance and Play: Between Mimesis and Metamorphosis.- 7. Transformation and Hunting.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 332
Inhalt: xxvi
302 S.
24 s/w Illustr.
34 farbige Illustr.
302 p. 58 illus.
34 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030211813
ISBN-10: 3030211819
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Guenther, Mathias
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Maße: 216 x 153 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Mathias Guenther
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2019
Gewicht: 0,543 kg
preigu-id: 116443563
Über den Autor

Mathias Guenther is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is the author of over 100 journal articles and six books, including Tricksters and Tracers: Bushman Religion and Society (1999).

Zusammenfassung

Applies the New Animist paradigm developed after Anthropology's ontological turn to African hunter-gatherer societies

Brings together considerable fieldwork with historical and interdisciplinary Khoisan Studies framework to explore experiential, cultural, and psychological dimensions of transformation

Particularly considers art, rituals experienced by both males and females, trance and ludic dance, and hunting

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Therianthropes.- 3. Transformation in Myth.- 4. Therianthropes and Transformation in San Art.- 5. Transformation in Ritual.- 6. Animals in San Dance and Play: Between Mimesis and Metamorphosis.- 7. Transformation and Hunting.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 332
Inhalt: xxvi
302 S.
24 s/w Illustr.
34 farbige Illustr.
302 p. 58 illus.
34 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030211813
ISBN-10: 3030211819
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Guenther, Mathias
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Maße: 216 x 153 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Mathias Guenther
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2019
Gewicht: 0,543 kg
preigu-id: 116443563
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