As such, Aboriginal understanding of the land that they live on is not only highly advanced, but is also intrinsically tied to ancient methods of conceptualising the world and how it came to be.

Animism is therefore not a religion but a term for classifying a type of religion, one which was, in the 1870s at least, deemed by European and American scholars to be less civilized.

Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the Northern Studies Association on "Animism and Shamanism in the North", held at Hokkaido University in 1995. Maps on lining papers. Date 1997 C1997 ...

It can be common for backtracking to occur. In Australia in 2019, the Aṉangu Aboriginal population decided to ban tours of Uluru despite the substantial financial boon that these visits represented.

Animism was used to describe the psychology of Native Americans and Siberian shamans asking spirit masters to offer up game to hunters.