EAN: 9783319568737

INDIGENOUS CREATURES NATIVE KNOWLEDGES AND THE ...

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to
engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to
spiritual realms and the occult  animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human
relations. Whether as animist gods  familiars  conduits to ancestors  totems  talismans  or
co-creators of multispecies cosmologies  animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures.
From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art  film  and
literature  the volume's unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America - historical loci
of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity - help to situate how indigenous
knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared
across species lines.

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