New Horizons of Animism

Abstract

Abstract. The New Animism (2024) is a textbook reader that introduces the Ukrainian audience to a carefully curated selection of works by well-known contemporary anthropologists, ecologists, priests, and philosophers who have been actively involved in rethinking the phenomenon of animism from 1960 to 2015. The textbook includes thirteen articles and essays by Alfred Hallowell, Edith Turner, Philippe Descola, Viveiros de Castro, Nurit Bird-David, Tim Ingold, David Abram, Isabelle Stengers, Shawn Beck, and Graham Harvey. This is the first Ukrainian-language publication of its kind. The works presented in the textbook are distinguished by their deep knowledge of the material, novelty, breadth of views, theoretical significance and acuity, making it possible for the reader to grasp what is currently understood under the term “new animism” and in what direction this phenomenon is being rethought. All of the texts included in the reader contribute to disrupting the dominant paradigm of rigid anthropocentrism in one way or another.