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AMERINDIAN PERSPECTIVISM AND THE ANIMIST COSMOLOGY OF THE CHIQUITANO PEOPLE
Espaço Ameríndio, 2012 This work thinks over the chiquitano perspective of living, which can be understood as some sort of animism, once it deems that all elements of nature possess souls, to which the Chiquitanos relate. The understanding of the Chiquitanos’ ethnic identity appears in theirs ceremonies and in the relationship of the believers with the Saints and hitchis ...
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The ‘Edibility Approach’: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ Boundaries [PDF]
, 2017 This paper introduces the Edibility Approach, which proposes that the condi-tion of ‘being edible’ is a mechanism that some plants employ to influence their in-gesters to care for them.
Attala, Luci
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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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Thinking Thought Otherwise:Cannibal Metaphysics and The Resistance to ideal Form [PDF]
, 2015 This paper focuses on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s notion of Cannibal Metaphysics and the use of indigenous alter-anthropologies that offer the possibility to think thought otherwise than the dominant frameworks of Western modernity. It traces the use of
Curran, Fiona
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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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“A little bit Christian”:Memories of conversion and community in post-Christian Amazonia [PDF]
, 2016 Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia is often described in terms of collective action rather than radically new beliefs interior to the individual.
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Miniatures and Animism: The communicative role of Inka carved stone conopa [PDF]
, 2016 Andean offerings use miniaturisation and synecdoche to enact connections within a relational animism (where people, places and things participate in an interactive network), allowing the person preparing the offering to make material links between them ...
Sillar, B
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The materiality of the ancient dead. Post-burial practices and ontologies of death in southern sweden AD 800–1200. [PDF]
, 2017 The text discusses reuse and modifications of older graves in southern Sweden during the Late Iron Age and early medieval period (c. 9th to 12th centuries AD).
Fredrik Fahlander
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 652-655, September 2025.
Mariana Petry Cabral
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