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The Birth of the Word. Language, Force, and Mapuche Ritual Authority [PDF]

, 2012
This paper seeks to employ rural Mapuche ideas about language to cast new light on the nature of agency and authority in lowland South America and elsewhere. Through ethnographic analysis, I demonstrate the need to account for the roles of priest, chief,
Course, Magnus
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Underestimation/complacency: two comments on the language of warfare

, 2020
Social Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 363-364, May 2020.
Marilyn Strathern
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Constructing futures: a social constructionist perspective on foresight methodology [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between a particular epistemological perspective and foresight methodology. We draw on a body of social theory concerned with the way that meaning is produced and assimilated by society ...
Adam, Ajzen, Bell, Berger, Bhaskar, Blumer, Booth, Bourdieu, De Castro, de Jouvenel, Durkheim, Fulcher, Garfinkel, Gergen, Glasersfeld, Godet, Goffman, Harré, High Level Expert Group, Inayatullah, Inayatullah, Krista Loogma, Latour, Latour, Law, Mannheim, Masini, Masini, Masini, Maturana, Mead, Piaget, Pinker, Ramos, Sayer, Sayer, Selin, Slaughter, Tapio, Ted Fuller, Van Der Helm, van der Helm, Wadsworth, Weber   +43 more
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Shamanism, Anthropomorphism and Perspectivism: Hans Jonas and Amerindian Ontologies

Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 2021
The article intends to bring together two theoretical views generally opposed and considered incompatible: philosophy (by Hans Jonas) and indigenous thought (Amerindian). We intend to demonstrate the similarities of these two positions around the interpretation of the human and non‘ human animal, based on the guiding thread of the interiority of life ...
Oliveira, Jelson Roberto de, Vasconcelos, Thiago Vinicius Rodrigues de   +1 more
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Fanon and the intelligent machine; concerning violence, Part 2. Reflections from a conversation with Gayatri Spivak [PDF]

, 2017
Taking the form of a series of reflections emerging from a conversation between the author and critic Gayatri Spivak, this article turns the exploration of the question concerning violence to the significance of Frantz Fanon as healer, image, exemplar ...
Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar
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Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
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Dualism in corporeality: the meaning-making in I-I and I-Other relationships [PDF]

, 2012
[Abstract] Departing from the notion of the body as an agency, as proposed by Viveiros de Castro’s Amerindian perspectivism, the aim of this presentation is to articulate the notion of agentive corporeality with the notions of belongingness and otherness
Mathias Simâo, Livia, Silva Guimarâes, Danilo   +1 more
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“Tupi, or not Tupi that is the question”: Amerindian perspectivism and Organizational Studies

RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas, 2020
Esse ensaio discorre sobre as possibilidades que o conceito de perspectivismo ameríndio de Viveiros de Castro oferece aos Estudos Organizacionais. O "Manifesto antropófago" de Oswald de Andrade é o fio condutor de nossa investigação. O perspectivismo ameríndio sugere um deslocamento reflexivo para a posição ocupada pelo objeto de investigação que ...
Velho Wanderley, Sergio Eduardo de Pinho, Bauer, Ana Paula Medeiros   +1 more
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John Clare and the Manifold Commons [PDF]

, 2013
There are growing and justifiable concerns about the degradation of the planet—the land, sea and atmosphere on which all life depends. While these problems unfold on a global scale they are not evenly distributed, either in terms of cause or effect. This
Patrick Bresnihan
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On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre‐Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre‐Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum‐Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra, Cristiana Bertazoni, Felipe Vander Velden   +2 more
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