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SUMMARY:Lecture: Gerrit Lange on Relationships in the Himalayas Beyond the
  Human
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DESCRIPTION:No April Fools’ joke!\n\nOn Wednesday\, April 1\, our collea
 gue Gerrit Lange will be visiting Ghent: As part of the lecture series “
 More-than-human South Asia: Ecologies\, Knowledge\, Bodies\, and Senses\,
 ” he will present the latest insights from his research.\n\nHis lecture\
 , “A Family Meeting with Nagini Mata: Establishing Relations with the Se
 rpent World\, Trees\, Grasses\, and Rivers in a Himalayan Valley\,” focu
 ses on non-human beings in the Hinduism of the Central Himalayas—includi
 ng trees\, rivers\, and serpent goddesses. Even seemingly insignificant ac
 tors such as cherry trees\, a mysterious grass\, and even the underworld m
 ake an appearance. Gerrit combines ethnographic perspectives with approach
 es from the aesthetics of religion as well as recent theories of animism.\
 n\nThus\, animism—in the sense of Graham Harvey\, for example—is no lo
 nger understood as a “primitive religion\,” but rather as a way of lif
 e in a world full of persons\, only some of whom are human.\n\nAll lecture
 s in the series will be streamed online. Further information and access de
 tails for the lecture can be found here: https://www.india.ugent.be/2026-
 gcsas-series-more-than-human-south-asia/.
LOCATION:External venue
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/lecture-gerrit-lange-on-relationships-i
 n-the-himal/
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