2020
DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12476
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Tsunki Only See the Fish as Their Hens in Certain Rivers: Situating the Politics of Shuar Ontology in the Ecuadorian Intercultural State

Abstract: The ontological turn in anthropology has triggered harsh criticism on political and epistemic grounds in recent years, channeling the disciplinary orthodoxy encapsulated in the Barbados Declaration and Writing Culture. Drawing from ethnographic material on ontologically based preferences between ancestral health‐seeking practices and state health care on Shuar territory in southeastern Ecuador, I point out that the appreciation and articulation of ontological alterity is central to certain contemporary indigen… Show more

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“…Such appropriations regularly occur at the Surama Eco-Lodge (see Figure 1). This ongoing concern about conceptualizations of outsiders in the anthropology of tourism connects with a debate among anthropologists over how ontology positions encounters between Indigenous people and outsiders (Descola, 2013;Vilaca, 2010;Tym, 2020). "Ontology" refers here to frameworks of "reality" (Kohn, 2015, 312−315), which include both Western scientific "naturalism" and contrasting frameworks (e.g., "animism" and "totemism") (Descola, 2013).…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Such appropriations regularly occur at the Surama Eco-Lodge (see Figure 1). This ongoing concern about conceptualizations of outsiders in the anthropology of tourism connects with a debate among anthropologists over how ontology positions encounters between Indigenous people and outsiders (Descola, 2013;Vilaca, 2010;Tym, 2020). "Ontology" refers here to frameworks of "reality" (Kohn, 2015, 312−315), which include both Western scientific "naturalism" and contrasting frameworks (e.g., "animism" and "totemism") (Descola, 2013).…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This ongoing concern about conceptualizations of outsiders in the anthropology of tourism connects with a debate among anthropologists over how ontology positions encounters between indigenous people and outsiders (see Descola 2013; Vilaca 2010; see also Tym 2020).…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This can create tensions when infrastructures are introduced in settings where divergent ontologies (co)exist. Thus, infrastructures are a key domain of ontological and pluriversal politics (de la Cadena, 2010(de la Cadena, , 2015Escobar, 2017Escobar, , 2020Tym, 2020).…”
Section: Infrastructure As Relational and Experimental Processmentioning
confidence: 99%