pt. I. From derogatory to critical term -- 1. From primitives to persons -- Stahl's elements -- Hume's sentiments -- Frazer's trees -- Tylor's spirits -- Huxley's antagonism -- Marett's powers -- Freud's projections -- Durkheim's totems -- Mauss's gift -- Piaget's development -- Guthrie's anthropomorphism -- Philosophers' panpsychism -- Hallowell's other-than-human persons -- Anthropologists' revisitation -- Kohák's trees -- Goodall's chimpanzees -- Garuba's literature -- Quinn's leavers -- Environmentalists' participation -- Re-cognising animisms -- pt. II. Animist case studies -- 2. Ojibwe language -- Grammar -- Stones -- Thunder -- Seasonal stories -- Ceremonies -- Tobacco greetings -- Waswagoning -- Legs and what's between them -- Living well -- 3. Maori arts -- All our relations -- Evolving relationships -- Violence and passion -- Tapu and noa -- Marae-atea -- Whare nui -- Whare kai -- Ancestral cannibalism -- Animist construction -- Enacting animism -- 4. Aboriginal law and land -- Dreaming and law -- Expressing the dreaming -- Subjects and objects -- Time and events -- Visiting Alice -- 5. Eco-pagan activism -- Defining paganism -- Defining paganism's nature -- Eco-paganism on the road -- Paganism off the road -- Knowing nature -- Gods, fairies and hedgehogs --

pt. III. Animist issues

6. Signs of life and personhood

Animals are people too

Bird persons

Fish persons

Plant persons

Stone persons

The elements

Places

Things, artefacts, fetishes and masks

Humans are animals too

Animals might be human too

7. Death

Death happens, deliberately

Hunting and domesticating

Death is a transformation

Death rituals and myths

8. Spirits, powers, creators and souls

Faeries and other spirits

Ancestors

Creators and tricksters

Life forces

Witchcraft substances and energies

Souls

Embodiment and spirituality

9. Shamans

Shamanic cosmologies

States of consciousness

Ecstasy, trance and possession

Hallucination or vision?

Eating 'souls'

Killing life

Surviving death

Shamans as mediators and healers

Animists' antagonists

Cultural nature and shamans as seers

10. Cannibalism

Accusations of cannibalism

Real cannibals?

Arens' myth

Compassionate cannibalism

Eating enemies

Cannibals as monsters, consumers and carers

Animism and cannibalism

11. Totems

Ojibwe clans

Updating the old totemism

Revisiting totemism

Revisiting other-than-humans

12. Elders and ethics

The good life

Wisdom

Initiation

pt. IV. Animism's challenges

13. Environmentalisms

Modernity's environmentalism

Depths of green

Ecofeminist particularity

Sitting and listening

Places

14. Consciousness

Solipsism

Consciousness matters

Cyber-consciousness

Knowing bodies matters

Relational consciousness

15. Philosophers and persons

Personalist persons

Phenomenological persons

Feminist and queer persons

Free and wilful ethical persons

Other persons

Quantum persons

Post-dualist persons

16. Conclusion

Re-cognising modernity

Re-cognising animism

Depth and breadth, turtles and hedgehogs.