Animism is Normative Consciousness
The Emerald
The Water of the Spring Is Sweet
The spring is a place of animacy and flow, partly because of the life giving water that bubbles upright from the ground. In his authoritative book on animism, graham harvey says that animism is about actual relationships rather than possible ones. The world is full of persons, say the ojibwa, only some of which are human. There is no quality of personhood that is not equally reflected in land and sky and spring and stone.
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