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Animism is Normative Consciousness

The Emerald

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Awakening to Personhood

Human cultures are not surrounded by nature or resources, but by a world full of cocophanous agencies. Persons need to be taught by stages some marked by initiations what it means to act as a person. The liberatory good life begins with a respectful acknowledgment of the presence of persons,. human and other than human, who make up the community of life.

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