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Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations.

Based on original fieldwork, this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon - its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of...

This festschrift for Josephus D.M. Platenkamp brings some central concerns of anthropology into focus: social morphology, exchange, cosmology, history, and practical applications. Ranging across several disciplines and continents, but with a preference for Southeast Asia, the contributions look at a common approach that unites these diverse themes. In this view, the most constitutive relationships of society are based on exchange. Exchange and ritual articulate central values of a society, thus appearing as parts in relationship to a whole. These relationships encompass both human and...

Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and
other, as experienced in the everyday challenges of doing
participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant
contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual
construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical
and self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues of voice
and representation raised by early postmodern anthropology,
to grapple with issues concerning the nature of knowledge
transmission that lie at the very heart of the ethnographic effort.
They explore how multiple modes of attending,...