Perspectivism

Vanzolini, Marina; Cesarino, Pedro de Niemeyer

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“…The notion of other-than-human beings having their own perspective comes from a great mythical division (36,38,39) that is "shared by several, if not all, Indigenous people of the New World, " as is stated by Viveiros de Castro (40). According to de Castro (41), unlike the Western evolutionary vulgatewhich uses soul and, more recently, consciousness or culture as criteria to distinguish humanity from animality -the Amerindian perspectivism states that the original condition of other-thanhuman beings is humanity, not animality.…”

Section: Anthropology: When Assumptions Are Not Common -Or the Same -Among Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Sciences in One Health: Insights From Multiple Worlds Perspectives on the Dam Rupture in Brumadinho-Brazil

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Sussai

Germine

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Concepts that integrate human, animal, and ecosystem health - such as One Health (OH) - have been highlighted in recent years and mobilized in transdisciplinary approaches. However, there is a lack of input from the social sciences in OH discussions. This is a gap to overcome, including in Latin America. Therefore, this paper incorporates recent studies from economics and anthropology to the debate, contributing to the opening of transdisciplinary dialogues for the elaboration of OH theory and practice. As a starting point, we explore the recent case of a tailings dam breach, making considerations about how and why this event was experienced in different ways by the affected Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds. From economics, we show how different theories perceive and impact these different worlds, presenting some existing alternatives to the hegemonic thinking of domination and exploitation. From anthropology, we present the perspectivism concept, deriving from the field of relational ontologies, suggesting there are significant and inevitable disagreements-equivocations-among different worlds. Thus, we discuss how the social sciences can help address challenging factors that need to be considered in health approaches that intend to deal with complex global problems. In conclusion, OH should incorporate social science discussions, considering relating practice to the multiple realities in which a particular problem or conflict is inserted. Overcoming the barriers that hinder transdisciplinary dialogue is fundamental and urgent for an effective approach to the multiple and distinct interconnections among humans, animals and environments.

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Section: Anthropology: When Assumptions Are Not Common -Or the Same -Among Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Sciences in One Health: Insights From Multiple Worlds Perspectives on the Dam Rupture in Brumadinho-Brazil

Brandão

Sussai

Germine

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Steingo¹,

Sykes²

2019

Remapping Sound Studies

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sound and south From at least the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Western thought has associated sound with "South." Rousseau averred that the origin of language in warmer, southern climes was connected to music and the natu ral inflections of the voice. The frigid harshness of the North, he argued, allowed for no such melodiousness of speech: there, communication resulted in lifeless words. Sound, body, and presence on the one hand; arid speech-in close proximity to the "dead letter" of writing-on the other. 1 To be sure, Rousseau's notion of sound is very diff er ent from our own, just as his Mediterranean South is not equivalent to the so-called global South of the twenty-first century. And yet one cannot help but notice an uncanny historical continuity: sound and South run like intertwined red threads through modernity, like a double-helix dna constituting our underground makeup. Ever since Rousseau, the South has been associated with sound, music, body, presence, nature, and warmth. The North, by contrast, sees itself as dominated by writing and vision-by a cultural coldness born of the snowcapped peaks of the Alps. 2 For Rousseau, as for us, sound was at once an empirical phenomenon and a concept burdened with tremendous po liti cal weight. The same, of course, can be said of "the South," a term that continues to designate a (loose and vague) geo graph i cal location while si mul ta neously harboring multiple ideological connotations with little empirical relation to geography and space. Sound and the South are, importantly, relational figures: they function only

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Perspectivism

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