Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas by Melissa ... - 9781498555357

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous AmericasAlterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms\nAuthor(s): Melissa R. Baltus, Sarah E. Baires, Christopher Carr, Matthew Colvin, Christina T. Halperin, Erica Hill, Peter Whitridge, Melissa R. Baltus, Sarah E. Baires, Brianna Rafidi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498555357, 978-1498555357\nSynopsis\nIn 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 .