Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds
Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena s decade long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices Her discussion of indigenous political strategies a realm that need not abide by binary logics reconfigures how to think about and question modern politics, while pushing her readers to think beyond hybridity and toward translation, communication that accepts incommensurability, and mutual difference as conditions for ethnography to work. Download Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds – kino-fada.fr A beautifully written argument for the acknowledgement of a reality comprised of multiple worlds De la Cadena thoughtfully ruminates on the discomfort inherent in writing about a worldview mediated through her relationships with residents of a partially ...This is an excellent book with rigorous attention to differences in ways of knowing and being Drawing frequently from Eduardo Viveiros de Castro s concept of equivocation, de la Cadena gives multi dimensional accounts of two runakuna practitioners that allow the r...
- 23 November 2018 Marisol de la Cadena
- Hardcover
- 368 pages
- 0822359448
- Marisol de la Cadena
- Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds