Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University.
The strengths of this book are its fluid and engaging [...]
writing, its openly committed stand on the central question, i.e.,
whether or not animals, plants, rivers, etc. are persons; and its
use of major ethnographic sources as evidence, together with
conversations with indigenous peoples.
*Professor Stewart Guthrie, Fordham University*
Harvey's insightful and balanced study challenges both earlier
studies of animism and more recent critics who argue that scholars
should throw out the term altogether. This is a fascinating and
passionate study of lifeworlds in which things are 'very much
alive' and in which relation to non-human others is considered
central.
*Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, author of
Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search
for Community*
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