A shamanic Bible and its enunciation

Vienne, Emmanuel de

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“…There is an evident cosmological continuity between human bodies and the environment in Kopenawa’s words. It is not surprising, for instance, that De Vienne writes apropos of Kopenawa and The Falling Sky : ‘when the body of the shaman has the same limits as the sky, his biography is a cosmography’ (De Vienne, 2014: 316). This is why throughout the book the reader has the impression that when Kopenawa speaks about himself and his body, he is also telling us something about the forest.…”

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Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism

Arregui

2018

Anthropological Theory

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This article proposes a non-recursive detour for the perspectival concept of ‘equivocation’ by applying it to an ongoing ecopolitical approximation. I will describe how a Brazilian climatologist and a Yanomami shaman translate their concerns about the Amazonian rainforest in order to reach each other’s audiences. Drawing on their public appearances and published texts, it will be argued that they mimetically rephrase their environmental thinking according to – what they assume to be – the conceptual imagination and the formats of communication of the Other. The shaman’s and the scientist’s connective gestures are thus taken as part of an exceptional form of public, ecopolitical dialogue, concerned with the future of the rainforest. Whereas the concept of ‘equivocation’ has proven useful to disclose the translational–ontological gap between the native’s and the ethnographer’s conceptual languages, this article aims at looking somewhere else than the recursive, ethnographic Self. In particular, the argument will pay attention to how equivocations and the so-called ‘ontological differences’ might be embodied by specific actors, in specific situations, inviting us to describe how these differences are de facto navigated and co-implicated by people other than anthropologists.

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Section: Experimental Mimicriesmentioning

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Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism

Arregui

2018

Anthropological Theory

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“…diplomático(VIVEIROS DE CASTRO, 2015, p. 39) esperando a assinatura de uma das partes; é um "bíblia xamânica"(VIENNE, 2014) mostrando o caminho para a salvação de todos nós. A queda do céu é um grande livro em diferentes aspectos.…”

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Sustentando O Céu: Uma Resenha Das Palavras De Um Xamã Yanomami

Wittmann

2016

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Data incarnations: Nesting complex inherited and learned behaviours

Ribeiro

2021

Technoetic Arts

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What happens when humans and birds engage each other through a collaboration-as-fantasy mediated by computers? Could such an exercise be modelled in a way that helps us to transcend the techno-ocularcentric fetishes for precision and certainty which demarcate our time? From Edgar Wind’s notion of 'incarnation' ‐ as the place where empirical experience and metaphysical foundation meet in the single cognitive and experiential act ‐ this article bridges the analogue with the digital, navigating nature’s strategies to embody inherited and learned complex behaviours in the design of nests, in what I call data-nests.

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A shamanic Bible and its enunciation

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism

Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism

Sustentando O Céu: Uma Resenha Das Palavras De Um Xamã Yanomami

Data incarnations: Nesting complex inherited and learned behaviours

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