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Ritual is etiquette in the larger than human world: the two wildernesses of contemporary eco-Paganism

This chapter utilises data from my ethnographic fieldwork among British ecoshamanic environmentalists in order to radicalise “nature/culture” debates, demonstrate the value of comparison with indigenous traditional environmental knowledges, and advance understanding of relational ontologies and epistemologies. It began as an invited contribution to a symposium on “wilderness” that brought differing definitional and methodological approaches into dialogue. The chapter was shaped in further discussion with the editor and other contributors so that the book offers a cohesive argument about an important of analytical and theoretical uses of “wilderness” and so as not to repeat background material covered elsewhere.