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Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia. [PDF]

, 2022
Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native ...
Vanessa Grotti
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Amazonian transformations of shamanism: talking about action among the Arabela (Peru) and education in residential schools among the E’ñepá (Venezuela)

, 2023
In this article, we show how the category of shamanism may be useful in the analysis of social practices of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. We demonstrate that an expanded understanding of shamanism, as present in the contemporary Amerindian ...
Rogalski, Filip, Buliński, Tarzycjusz
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Poética e política nas terras baixas da América do Sul: a fala do chefe [PDF]

, 2020
Este artigo é dedicado à noção de política envolvida nas falas de chefe das sociedades ameríndias das terras baixas da América do Sul. Através da comparação com etnografias diversas, pretende-se compreender os contornos de um gênero verbal marcado pela ...
Cesarino, Pedro de Niemeyer
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Autonomy, productiveness, and community: the rise of inequality in an Amazonian society

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 48-66, March 2020., 2020
Abstract In Amazonian societies, autonomy is said to be a core value motivating egalitarian politics. This article shows how the quest for autonomy and productiveness presently sets in motion processes that encroach upon these very values. Among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador, the realization of autonomy and productiveness increasingly depends on the ...
Natalia Buitron
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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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Equality without equivalence: an anthropology of the common★

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 146-166, March 2020., 2020
Abstract This article elaborates an Amazonian conception of the common and the challenge it poses to Western thinking about individualism and equality. It is suggested that a number of distinctive features of Amazonian Urarina sociality may have their basis in a shared refusal of factors that give rise to relations of equivalence between people.
Harry Walker
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Multi‐institutional experience of genetic diagnosis in Ecuador: National registry of chromosome alterations and polymorphisms

Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2020., 2020
Of 28,806 karyotypes analyzed in Ecuador, 6,008 (20.9%) exhibited alterations. Down syndrome was the most frequent autosome alteration (88.28%), followed by Turner syndrome (60.50%). Translocations (2.46%) and polymorphisms (7.84%) were not as numerous as autosomopathies (64.33%) and gonosomopathies (25.37%).
César Paz‐y‐Miño, Verónica Yumiceba, Germania Moreta, Rosario Paredes, Mónica Ruiz, Ligia Ocampo, Arianne Llamos Paneque, Catalina Ochoa Pérez, Juan Carlos Ruiz‐Cabezas, Jenny Álvarez Vidal, Idarmis Jiménez Torres, Ramón Vargas‐Vera, Fernando Cruz, Víctor Hugo Guapi N, Martha Montalván, Sara Meneses Álvarez, Maribel Garzón Castro, Elizabeth Lamar Segura, María Augusta Recalde Báez, María Elena Naranjo, Nina Tambaco Jijón, María Sinche, Pedro Licuy, Ramiro Burgos, Fabián Porras‐Borja, Gabriela Echeverría‐Garcés, Andy Pérez‐Villa, Isaac Armendáriz‐Castillo, Jennyfer M. García‐Cárdenas, Santiago Guerrero, Patricia Guevara‐Ramírez, Andrés López‐Cortés, Ana Karina Zambrano, Paola E. Leone   +33 more
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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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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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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