I've been reading Harvey's Animism - one interesting thing in the section about objiwe gramar and personhood, is that not all animist see everything as a person - sometimes I think we have a tendency to embrace the "everything is sacred" mentality in our efforts to relate to our other-then-human relatives, or more that "everything is a person" . . . In harvey's conversation with obijwe he learns that they teach their young how to identify person hood, and the skill is not inherent. I think one thing that sets us apart, as bioreigional animists, in some ways, is that we see personhood in our local environments. Living in communities of other-then-humans the community it self has personhood, I am thinking . . . with that in mind Renee brought up a really good point in another post - like with malls and other icons of urban living - these are environments largely constructed by human social construct so in our more "urban" community what has personhood - and how does it gain personhood?

Harvey speaks about objiwe tradition some items haven't person hood on their own, but when they are used to construct something, the new thing does....

From my experience I have known houses with personhood, and some houses that did not seem to have person hood - apartment complexes don't feel that way to me and many commercial buildings don't either. . . what is interesting is the older buildings seem more alive to me for some reason - perhaps it is because their construction consists of more organic material, there design was more thoughtful - - i don't know.

How does others on here see personhood manifested?