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Inside an Alter-Anthropology. Amerindian Perspectivism under Perspective

open access: yes, 2022
This article discusses the different senses of perspectivism along Viveiros de Castro’s work, considering that since 1990s this anthropologist is one of its main referents. First, we focus on notions such as person, human and society as developed in his initial writings.
dos Santos, Antonela, Tola, Florencia
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Pekarik és szellemek : Gondolatok az antropológiai hermeneutikáról [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Az antropológia/néprajzkutatás1 ismeretelméletére, hermeneutikájára2 (és azoknak vélt vagy valós krízisére) vonatkozó viták szerencsés módon gyakran vetődnek fel a hazai és nemzetközi szakmai diskurzusokban.3 E viták közül az egyik legjelentősebb a ...
Mészáros, Csaba
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Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay explores how contemporary political life is framed through engagements with material forms. Extending work that has demonstrated that politics is best understood not as a discursive or institutional sphere but as the effect of material ...
Knox, HC
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La vie est un sac rempli d’air : Polysémie de pooq et autres notions associées [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
L’auteure aborde les significations littérales et métaphoriques de l’inuit pooq ou puuq et des objets qui y sont associés et montre qu’elles interagissent de la même manière dans les rituels entre le monde visible et les mondes invisibles de la ...
Sonne, Birgitte
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Justice and the dark arts: law and shamanism in Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The idea of “law” as a regulating force external to individuals is rapidly gaining traction among Peruvian Urarina. Its uptake and mode of use have been guided by local forms of shamanic practice, reflecting the common basis of law and shamanism in ...
Anter   +52 more
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Relational Identities and Other-Than-Human Agency in Archaeology

open access: yes, 2018
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world ...
Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Hendon, Julia A.
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'Seeing’ Papua New Guinea:Making Order and Disorder through a Petroleum Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article contributes to debates about how capitalist corporations ‘see’, and how they concurrently relate to the places where they are located. It argues that an analytical focus on seeing illuminates how internal organization and outwards relation ...
Dalsgaard, Steffen
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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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The Landscape Imagination: Intersecting historical ecology and Amerindian perspectivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article considers how the research programmes of historical ecology and Amerindian perspectivism may be combined and intersected to better describe the cultural understandings, agencies, and intentionalities that underlie the processes of landscape ...
Whitaker, James Andrew
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