‘Animism’ Revisited. Personhood. Environment and Relational Epistemology’, Current Anthropology Volume 40 Supplement issue, 17–91 Bird-David, Nurit (2006). ‘Animistic epistemology: Why do some ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism?

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Animism is an important part of many religions - from Shinto, Hinduism and Buddhism to Paganism and a range of indigenous religions - ...