Animate Landscapes: Spirits and Sovereignty in Indigenous Religions
RELI 306
Spring 2022
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01
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| Crosslisting:
ENVS 309 |
Scientific understandings of the world are grounded in a distinction between animate beings and inanimate matter, but people all over the world have understood land and landscapes as alive and filled with agency. Indigenous religious practices often include relationships with mountains, rivers, glaciers, and other "other-than-human persons." Using case studies and the instructor's fieldwork materials with place beings in Buryatia, we will explore the different relationships human beings have with animate and sacred landscapes and think about the ramifications these relationships have for thinking about sovereignty over and in the "natural" world. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS RELI |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(ENVS-MN)(ENVS)(RELI-MN)(RELI) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selections from:
Elizabeth Povinelli, GEONTOLOGIES
Adele Barker, SOVEREIGNTIES MATTER
Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon, SHAMANS AND ELDERS
Donatas Brandisauskas, LEAVING FOOTPRINTS IN THE TAIGA
Marisol de la Cadena, Selected Readings
Vine Deloria, Jr., Selected Readings
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Examinations and Assignments:
Reading response posts,
Three reflective essays
Active class participation |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Historical Traditions or Method & Theory requirements for the Religion major. |
| Instructor(s): Quijada,Justine Times: ..T.R.. 08:50AM-10:10AM; Location: FISK208; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 10 | FR: 10 |
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