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Animism: Respecting the Living World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as animism)
avg rating 4.08 — 183 ratings — published 2005
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as animism)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,576 ratings — published 1996
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as animism)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,766 ratings — published 2010
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as animism)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,308 ratings — published 2013
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen Handbooks)
by (shelved 12 times as animism)
avg rating 4.46 — 28 ratings — published 2013
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as animism)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,132 ratings — published 2019
The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as animism)
avg rating 4.15 — 103 ratings — published 2012
A Language Older Than Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as animism)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,621 ratings — published 2000
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animism)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,934 ratings — published 2021
When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
by (shelved 5 times as animism)
avg rating 3.94 — 53 ratings — published
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animism)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,079 ratings — published 2013
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animism)
avg rating 4.33 — 726 ratings — published 2006
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animism)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,283 ratings — published 2001
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animism)
avg rating 4.26 — 898 ratings — published 2004
The City Is a Labyrinth: A Walking Guide for Urban Animists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animism)
avg rating 4.59 — 32 ratings — published
Animal Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animism)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,760 ratings — published 1996
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animism)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,529 ratings — published 2003
DIY Animism: Your Personal Guide to Animal Spirits (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as animism)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animism)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,234 ratings — published 2015
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as animism)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2012
Skin Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animism)
avg rating 4.53 — 32 ratings — published 2010
Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animism)
avg rating 4.04 — 212 ratings — published 1986
Okinawa: A People and Their Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1969
Alive with Spirits: The Path and Practice of Animistic Witchcraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 3.96 — 67 ratings — published
Heir to the Shadows (The Black Jewels, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.31 — 30,042 ratings — published 1999
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.48 — 521 ratings — published 2014
Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.31 — 640 ratings — published
Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2020
Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,542 ratings — published 2003
Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.29 — 132 ratings — published 2006
Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,663 ratings — published 2020
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,787 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,909 ratings — published 1968
The Dream of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.17 — 380 ratings — published 1988
Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.16 — 108 ratings — published 2017
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (Compass)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.22 — 606 ratings — published 1993
Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 3.93 — 81 ratings — published 2006
The Nordic Animist Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.70 — 43 ratings — published
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,508 ratings — published 1972
Cannibal Metaphysics (Univocal)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.20 — 357 ratings — published 2009
Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.40 — 609 ratings — published 1996
Beyond Nature and Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.16 — 285 ratings — published 2005
The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds (Hau - Special Collections in Ethnographic Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.55 — 42 ratings — published 2015
Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.46 — 323 ratings — published 2016
Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,270 ratings — published 1984
Shinto: The Kami Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,486 ratings — published 1962
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.31 — 150 ratings — published 2007
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,075 ratings — published 1932
Plant and Fungus Totems: Connect with Spirits of Field, Forest, and Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.06 — 49 ratings — published 2014
The Legend of Eli Monpress (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as animism)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,529 ratings — published 2012
“Before discussing the 'relinking' of people and forests through community forestry, it is important to understand where the 'delinking' paradigm, superimposed onto Tanzania and elsewhere during colonial times originated. The separation of people and nature has deep-rooted conceptual origins, for example early Judeo-Christian texts explicitly framed humans as exceptional and separate from nature as opposed to many animist religions that placed humans within nature. The conceptual separation is particularly strong in Europe, as reflected in the origins of certain words, with the Latin word foestis originating from a meaning 'outside', as in a wild place outside human control.
Such 'wild places' later became the hunting reserves of elites in Europe in the form of exclusionary Royal Forests, 'commoners' were kept out. A few centuries later, during the period of Enlightenment and into industrialisation and urbanisation, livelihoods in countries like Britain are further delinked from nature, The division between [eople and nature has become so heavily engrained in modern industrialised society that 'wilderness' has attained a romantic idealisation.”
― Reforesting Scotland 71, Spring/Summer 2025
Such 'wild places' later became the hunting reserves of elites in Europe in the form of exclusionary Royal Forests, 'commoners' were kept out. A few centuries later, during the period of Enlightenment and into industrialisation and urbanisation, livelihoods in countries like Britain are further delinked from nature, The division between [eople and nature has become so heavily engrained in modern industrialised society that 'wilderness' has attained a romantic idealisation.”
― Reforesting Scotland 71, Spring/Summer 2025
“People forget that humans are animals too, that we're just as much a part of the wild places as the things that live in them.”
― Interlands
― Interlands
