Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies [Hardcover]

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challengescyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated.  A range of geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this volume will be of particular interest to readers working in shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and religious and ritual studies.

Chapter 1. Introduction, Diana Riboli and Davide Torri .- Chapter 2. The War Has Just Begun. Natures Fury against Neocolonial Spirit/s:   Shamanic Perceptions of Natural Disasters in Comparative Perspective, Diana Riboli.- Chapter 3. The Spirits of Extractivism: Non-human Meddling, Shamanic Diplomacy and Cosmo-political Strategy among the Urarina (Peruvian Amazon), Emanuele Fabiano.- Chapter 4. Batek Cosmopolitics in the Early 21st Century, Ivan Tracey.- Chapter 5. Jinn Pinn Dance in the Floods: Perceptions of Flood Disasters among the Kalasha of Pakistan, Taj Khan Kalash .- Chapter 6. Eco-Cosmologies: Renewable Energy , Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern.-&lS(