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Infra‐culture and infrastructures: Relational placemaking at the coast
Short Abstract This article explores the concept of infra‐culture, emphasising how cultural practices and material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures over time. Using the Alde and Ore estuary in eastern England as a case study now increasingly disrupted by climate change, it examines the role of infra‐culture in shaping ...
Julian Clark
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Visual Nature: Multiperspectivity on Peru’s South Coast
Imagery produced by the Indigenous peoples of south-coastal Peru (100 BCE–700 CE) frequently paired plants, animals (human and otherwise), and what have been called mythical or supernatural entities in predator–prey relationships.
Carolyn Dean
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Perspectivismo multinatural como transformação estrutural
O objetivo deste artigo e demonstrar que o que ficou conhecido como perspectivismo multinatural (PM) (Viveiros de Castro, 1998) pode ser visto como uma transformacao estrutural do totemismo e que, por essa razao, o PM tem u ma intima relacao com a formula canonica do mito (FCM) de Levi-Strauss.
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Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other?
Jan David Hauck
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Indigenous Metaphysics and Freudian Metapsychology
This article resorts to some concepts formulated by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro on indigenous metaphysics: perspectivism, multinaturalism, animism, cannibal otherness, and the analysis of the xapiri and shamanic work, implied by the Yanomami ...
Fernanda Silveira Corrêa
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Abstract This study examines the use of participatory mapping as a method to represent the values of non‐human entities (more‐than‐humans) in socio‐ecological landscapes. This research seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical developments in more‐than‐human geographies and their practical landscape‐level applications.
Ayla De Grandpré, Jon M. Corbett
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Worlding and weirding with beaver: A more‐than‐human political ecology of ecosystem engineering
Short Abstract This paper examines a model of Nature‐based Solutions that involves the strategic use of ecosystem engineers: animals, plants, and microbes with disproportionate ecological agency capable of regional or even planetary‐scale niche construction.
Jamie Lorimer
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A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation [PDF]
A recurring theme within the complex cosmopolitics of pre-Christian Inuit is the transformation of persons—typically, but not exclusively, shamans (both human and nonhuman animal) and spirit beings—from one physical form, or “species,” to another. The motif is common in contemporary Inuit visual art and recent historic oral tradition, and less frequent
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Coesistenze produttive. Abitare il paesaggio della Foresta di Petén in Guatemala
How does a community, living in an ecosystem complex like the tropical forest, develop new ways to have a productive relationship with the forest? The article presents the case study of the village of Uaxactún in Guatemala to show new ways of cohabiting ...
Maria Chiara Libreri
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Current wildlife management practices rely largely on quantitative data to legitimise decisions, manage human–wildlife conflicts and control wildlife populations. This paper draws attention to the affective relationships between humans and animals inevitably formed in the practice of producing these data.
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