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Ethnoontology: Ways of world‐building across cultures
Philosophy Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2019., 2019 Abstract This article outlines a program of ethnoontology that brings together empirical research in the ethnosciences with ontological debates in philosophy. First, we survey empirical evidence from heterogeneous cultural contexts and disciplines. Second, we propose a model of cross‐cultural relations between ontologies beyond a simple divide between ...
David Ludwig, Daniel A. Weiskopf
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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 +1 more
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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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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Semiosis in crisis: problematizations between Semiotic of Culture and Amerindian Perspectivism [PDF]
, 2019 O objetivo deste artigo é dar início a uma problematização sobre as interrelações possíveis entre a Semiótica da Cultura (russa) e o Perspectivismo Ameríndio com vistas a compor chaves de interpretação de dinâmicas interculturais de sociedades que não se
do Rosário, Nísia Martins +1 more
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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 +2 more
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Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication
People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 560-574, March 2025.Abstract Indigenous knowledges are being increasingly recognized as fundamental for environmental governance, ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. However, they tend to be recognized by Western science only when they converge with Western scientific knowledge, while ontological differences are generally treated as irrelevant or ...
Mariana Franco Cassino +11 more
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Framing social movements: A geographical perspective
Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2024.Abstract The geographical concepts of scale, space and place have informed and refined the theory of “framing” in the social movement literature. Going beyond the conventional approach of understanding social movements, this article aims to bring discussions on relational ontology into conversation with the geographical literature on scale and spatial ...
Souvik Lal Chakraborty
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 145-158, April 2024.Abstract Sarayaku, an Amazonian Kichwa community in Pastaza province, Ecuador, is suspected to be rich in oil reserves. This fact has generated outside interest in the region and in turn pushed Sarayaku Runa (Sarayaku people) to defend their territory against state‐led extractivist projects.
Leonidas Oikonomakis
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Formalizing Latin American Perspectivism: A Neutrosophic MultiPerspectivism Model [PDF]
Neutrosophic Sets and SystemsThis paper addresses the challenge of formally modeling the complex, often contradictory, knowledge systems inherent in Latin American decolonial thought.
Maikel Y. Leyva Vázquez +1 more
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