Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Maps xv
7. Introduction: Animism and Invisible Worlds: The Place of Non-humans in Indigenous Ontologies 1
8. Chapter 1 Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia 29
9. Chapter 2 Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among the Eveny and Chukchi of North-eastern Siberia 48
10. Chapter 3 Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia 69
11. Chapter 4 Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs: Communication through Sharing Contexts 82
12. Chapter 5 Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia 96
13. Chapter 6 ‘Spirit-charged’ Animals in Siberia 113
14. Chapter 7 Shamans, Animals and Enemies: Human and Non-human Agency in an Amazonian Cosmos of Alterity 130
15. Chapter 8 Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: Spatiality and Objects in the Nenets Tundra Home 146
16. Chapter 9 Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia 162
17. Chapter 10 Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond 175
18. Afterword 195
19. Notes on Contributors 200
20. Index 203