Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas

Download or read book Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas written by Melissa R. Baltus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.