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Book review: anthropological cosmochemistry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Beyond Nature and Culture By Philippe ...
Scott, Michael W.
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Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article argues that doing anthropology means comparing anthropologies. Comparison is not just our primary analytic tool, it is also our raw material and our ultimate grounding, since what we compare are always and necessarily, in one form or other ...
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo
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Wittgensteinian forms of life and amerindian perspectivism: towards a wild anthropological linguistic

open access: yes, 2023
Based on the assumption that we are experiencing a certain methodological crisis in the Humanities – of which Language Studies are a part – this article proposes a perspective of discursive studies that is based on the conception of language as a form(s) of life as expressed by the thinking of mature L. Wittgenstein.
openaire   +1 more source

Shake the pale face, change the skin: performative paths to crossontologies and generations

open access: yesSala Preta
The notions of wild soul and Amerindian perspectivism formulated by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro establish, by opposition, the contours of the pale face and inspire thoughts and actions to expand hegemonic visions linked to child drama.
L. Borges
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Sensual Vitalities: Noncorporeal Modes of Sensing and Knowing in Native Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Yanesha people of eastern Peru would agree with Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas that knowledge can only be achieved through sense perception. They would, however, disagree on what exactly “sense perception” means. In the Western tradition the senses are
Santos-Granero, Fernando
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The Crisis of Late Structuralism. Perspectivism and Animism: Rethinking Culture, Nature, Spirit, and Bodiliness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The paper takes as its point of departure an assessment of the achievements and limitations of structuralism as exemplified by the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, with particular attention to its applications to Amazonian ethnographic data.
Turner, Terry S.
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Mímesis, performance, representação: o uso das máscaras na Amazônia [PDF]

open access: yes
El presente artículo intenta revisar el uso y empleo de las máscaras para la creación de un efecto transformador y sinestético en el arte simbólico e imaginativo de crear un paisaje de lejanía y familiaridad en que un ‘otro’ visualiza un diagrama ...
Tassi Teixeira, Rafael
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CORPO, CONHECIMENTO E PERSPECTIVA: A FENOMENOLOGIA DE MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY E O PERSPECTIVISMO AMERÍNDIO

open access: yesEspaço Ameríndio, 2007
: This article aims to establish a parallel of comparison between Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and amerindian perspectivism, mainly on body and knowledge relations.
GUILHERME ORLANDINI HEURICH
doaj  

L'utilisation des insectes dans les pratiques médicinales et rituelles d'Amazonie indigène - Insects in medicinal and ritual practices in the Indigenous Amazon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Social insects, and specifically ants, play a crucial part in traditional Amazonian ritual and symbolic systems. This paper examines what effective uses insects are put to by Amazonian peoples, and how these are reflected in their ideology.
Césard, Nicolas   +2 more
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