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Nurit Bird-David is an Israeli cultural anthropologist at the University of Haifa whose research focuses on hunter-gatherer societies and human relationships with the environment. Her long-term ethnographic work with the Nayaka, a forest-dwelling people of South India, informed her analyses of animi...
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Nayaka research and the relational epistemology account of animism became widely influential; celebrated conceptual innovation, though comparative generalization remains debated.
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Shintoism is the indigenous spirituality of Japan, deeply connected to nature, purity, and the worship of Kami (divine spirits residing in natural objects, ancestors, and phenomena). It is less a codified religion and more a way of life integrated into Japanese culture. Its focus on ritual purificat...
