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Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives
and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation,
and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the
indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment
characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The
resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in
ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore
the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms,
increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban
centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current
expressions of modernity into indigenous societies.
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives
and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation,
and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the
indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment
characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The
resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in
ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore
the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms,
increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban
centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current
expressions of modernity into indigenous societies.
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism,
the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences
actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological
dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism
in South America often focus on wider national and international
politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic
explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds,
revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to
mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or
the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded
in the respective authors' long-standing field research. The
authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation),
consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from
fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural
and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve
localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways
of thinking otherwise?
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism,
the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences
actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological
dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism
in South America often focus on wider national and international
politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic
explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds,
revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to
mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or
the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded
in the respective authors' long-standing field research. The
authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation),
consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from
fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural
and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve
localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways
of thinking otherwise?
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