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Contents

Introduction: Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, and Giovanna Bacchiddu

Chapter 1. Learning to See in Western Amazonia: How Does Form Reveal Relation?
Els Lagrou

Chapter 2. Looks Like Viscera: Folds, Wraps, and Relations in the Southern Andes
Francisco Pazzarelli

Chapter 3. On People, Sensorial Perception, and Potential Affinity in Southern Chile
Cristóbal Bonelli

Chapter 4. Sorcery, Revenge, and Anti-Revenge: Relational Excess and Individuation in the Gran Chaco
Florencia Tola

Chapter 5. The Name of the Relation: Making a Difference in Aweti Onomastics
Marina Vanzolini

Chapter 6. Ritualizing the Everyday: The Dangerous Imperative of Hospitality in Apiao, Chiloé
Giovanna Bacchiddu

Afterword I: Relations and Relatives
Aparecida Vilaça

Afterword II: Reflecting Back
Marilyn Strathern

Epilogue: The Cemeteries as Metaphors of Who We Are
Claudio Millacura Salas

Index

Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu

Afterwords by Aparecida Vilaça and Marilyn Strathern

184 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-329-9 Hb Published (May 2022)

eISBN 978-1-80073-331-2 eBook

Details

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift, demonstrating the continued importance of ethnographic diversity. Most importantly, this volume asserts that comparative ethnographic research can help illustrate complex questions surrounding relations vis-à-vis the homogenizing effects of modern coloniality.

Marcelo González Gálvez is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of Los mapuche y sus otros: Persona, alteridad y Sociedad en el sur de Chile (2016).

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile (2018).

Giovanna Bacchiddu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has been researching social life in a small, insular community of Chiloé for two decades. She has written on religion, kinship, sociality, and education. She has also researched on international adoption.

Series: Volume 13, Studies in Social Analysis

Subject: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

LC: F2229 .T51 2022

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC019000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Methodology; SOC062000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Indigenous Studies