Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 An Introduction to Relational Personhood and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology 3
4. 2 Personhood and Agency in Eskimo Interactions with the Other-than-Human 29
5. 3 Dead Kettles and Indigenous Afterworlds in Early Colonial Encounters in the Maritimes 51
6. 4 Water and Shells in Bodies and Pots 72
7. 5 The Inalienable-Commodity Continuum in the Circulation of Birds on the North American Plains 100
8. 6 Objects with Voices among the Ancient Maya 126
9. 7 Can Tools Have Souls? 147
10. 8 Torres Strait Canoes as Social and Predatory Object-Beings 167
11. 9 Efficacious Objects and Techniques of the Subject 197
12. 10 Finding Objects, Making Persons 237
13. 11 Relational Matters of Being 263
14. Contributors 283
15. Index 285