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Transcending human sociality: eco-cosmological relationships between entities in the ecosphere
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Abstract
Based on a discussion of the theoretical contributions of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Clastres, this article explores social relationships as more than a human dimension. Though strongly analysed by both anthropologists, these relationships appear to involve indigenous societies’ whole ecological... view more
Based on a discussion of the theoretical contributions of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Clastres, this article explores social relationships as more than a human dimension. Though strongly analysed by both anthropologists, these relationships appear to involve indigenous societies’ whole ecological and cosmological system. In this sense, reciprocity, social cohesion, and exchange can be understood as material and immaterial interrelationships between entities of a more than a corporeal world. I argue, then, that to go beyond the mere anthropocentric conceptualisation of sociality in a nature good to think, we need to holistically conceive the interconnected levels of trophic, socio-structural and socio-cosmic relationships and exchanges between human and non-human beings in the ecosystem.... view less
Keywords
sociality; indigenous peoples; human-environment relationship; religion; anthropology; Levi-Strauss, C.; ethnocentrism; reciprocity
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Human-Non-Human relations; Ecological anthropology; Amerindian ethnology; Philosophical anthropology; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Ethnobiology; Eco-Cosmic System; Indigenous Societies; Pierre Clastres; Trophic Exchanges
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-17
Journal
Disparidades: Revista de Antropología, 77 (2022) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3989/dra.2022.005
ISSN
2659-6881
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed