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A category of necessity, not of nature. The world's roughly 370 million indigenous people belong to thousands of distinct peoples — Yoruba, Maori, Lakota, Sami, Aboriginal Australian, Inuit, Ainu, Quechua, Hopi, Bantu, Sentinelese — each with its own cosmology, ritual life, kinship and land relations. Lumping them as a single religious category is itself a colonial gesture. We do it because the alternative is... Key sections include: Indigenous Religions.; Opening What "indigenous religion" names.; Chapter I The category itself.; Chapter II The scale of diversity.; Chapter III Animism, then and now.; Chapter IV The ancestors.; Chapter V Place and land.; Chapter VI Ritual specialists.; Chapter VII The oral transmission.; Chapter VIII Cosmologies..
