In what distinctive ways are lowland South American Indians animists? Is there a place in Amerindian thought for a conception of biological life autonomous from social intelligence and its socially determined intentions? How far can it be said that by viewing animals, plants and objects as subjective agents endowed with consciousness and intentionality, native Amazonians construct a way of knowing the world which is both culturally unique and antithetical to biology? In trying to provide ethnographically informed answers to these questions, I critically review various theoretical approaches to animism, ontological animism and perspectivism. In ending, I attempt to explain why these theories ultimately discard or ignore the rich base of biol...
This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Moré (Itene) who, together with Wari’ and Or...
As an artistic experience, the photographic research "Arborescence - plant physiognomy in Amazonian ...
Abstract: It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the enviro...
In what distinctive ways are lowland South American Indians animists? Is there a place in Amerindian...
In what distinctive ways are lowland South American Indians animists? Is there a place in Amerindian...
Recent discourse within Western ecologism raises numerous issues relevant for the debate on animism ...
Recent discourse within Western ecologism raises numerous issues relevant for the debate on animism ...
Recent discourse within Western ecologism raises numerous issues relevant for the debate on animism ...
This ethnoecological study of the Makushi Amerindians of Amazonian Guyana explores the place of plan...
This ethnoecological study of the Makushi Amerindians of Amazonian Guyana explores the place of plan...
Indigenous Amazonians have long been held up as models of small-scale, animist societies. Now, howev...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Moré (Itene) who, together with Wari’ and Or...
As an artistic experience, the photographic research "Arborescence - plant physiognomy in Amazonian ...
Abstract: It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the enviro...
In what distinctive ways are lowland South American Indians animists? Is there a place in Amerindian...
In what distinctive ways are lowland South American Indians animists? Is there a place in Amerindian...
Recent discourse within Western ecologism raises numerous issues relevant for the debate on animism ...
Recent discourse within Western ecologism raises numerous issues relevant for the debate on animism ...
Recent discourse within Western ecologism raises numerous issues relevant for the debate on animism ...
This ethnoecological study of the Makushi Amerindians of Amazonian Guyana explores the place of plan...
This ethnoecological study of the Makushi Amerindians of Amazonian Guyana explores the place of plan...
Indigenous Amazonians have long been held up as models of small-scale, animist societies. Now, howev...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s ...
This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Moré (Itene) who, together with Wari’ and Or...
As an artistic experience, the photographic research "Arborescence - plant physiognomy in Amazonian ...
Abstract: It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the enviro...