Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds

by Susan McHugh

Book Overview

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319568736
• ISBN13: 9783319568737
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"