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Batek Cosmopolitics in the Early Twenty-First Century

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This chapter explores the politics of indigenous cosmologies and shamanic practices in the early twenty-first century, a period marked by rampant environment destruction and climatic change. Through an examination of Batek eco-cosmologies and cosmopolitical relations with other-than-human beings, the chapter focuses on transformations to these relations and discourses about shamanistic practices. The forest periphery is a site of complex interconnection with a variety of actors and agencies of the forest and the local and larger national and globalized human environment. From this peripheral location, Batek shamans have reassembled relations with other-than-human beings and built new discourses about environmental changes.

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Tacey, I. (2021). Batek Cosmopolitics in the Early Twenty-First Century. In: Riboli, D., Stewart, P.J., Strathern, A.J., Torri, D. (eds) Dealing with Disasters. Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56104-8_4

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