Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology
Amazonia as a place, a subject, a point of view, and a socio-ecological world.

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance. In all their various lines (and circles) of ecological and epistemological thought, the artists, elders, writers, theorists, shamans, curators, poets, and activists whose ideas, images, and struggles compose this book, are concerned with Amazonia as both a place and a point of view. Through the weaving of voices, myths, ancestors, and territories, and all their radical subjectivities, we understand language in this anthology in an extended sense: as testimony, textile, painting, river, forest, animal, ancestor, song, spirit, and sacred medicine. Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology inquires into decolonial feminisms and Indigenous temporalities, externalized memory and erasure, sacred plants in the shadow of pandemic corporate-state extractivism and systemic violence, the activist possibilities of the mythic imagination, and the common visual matrices of the Amazonian universe. The book also weighs the Western imaginary of the Amazon, both its colonial roots in racial capitalism and its corporate, technological, paternalistic present. Centered, however, is Amazonia itself, in all its many and numinous worlds and languages—visual, oral, botanical, ancestral, cosmological—by which it becomes narrated, passed on, and then narrated again.

Contributors
Maria Thereza Alves, Christian Bendayan, Rita Carelli, Felipe Castelblanco, Carolina Caycedo, Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, Tiffany Higgins, Márcia Wayna Kambeba, knowbotique, Davi Kopenawa, Ailton Krenak, Renata Machado, Maurício Meirelles, Harry Pinedo, Aníbal Quijano, Djamila Ribeiro, Pamela Rosenkranz, Abel Rodríguez, Maria Belén Saéz de Ibarra, Barbara Santos, Paulo Tavares, Daiara Tukano, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
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Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology
Amazonia as a place, a subject, a point of view, and a socio-ecological world.

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance. In all their various lines (and circles) of ecological and epistemological thought, the artists, elders, writers, theorists, shamans, curators, poets, and activists whose ideas, images, and struggles compose this book, are concerned with Amazonia as both a place and a point of view. Through the weaving of voices, myths, ancestors, and territories, and all their radical subjectivities, we understand language in this anthology in an extended sense: as testimony, textile, painting, river, forest, animal, ancestor, song, spirit, and sacred medicine. Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology inquires into decolonial feminisms and Indigenous temporalities, externalized memory and erasure, sacred plants in the shadow of pandemic corporate-state extractivism and systemic violence, the activist possibilities of the mythic imagination, and the common visual matrices of the Amazonian universe. The book also weighs the Western imaginary of the Amazon, both its colonial roots in racial capitalism and its corporate, technological, paternalistic present. Centered, however, is Amazonia itself, in all its many and numinous worlds and languages—visual, oral, botanical, ancestral, cosmological—by which it becomes narrated, passed on, and then narrated again.

Contributors
Maria Thereza Alves, Christian Bendayan, Rita Carelli, Felipe Castelblanco, Carolina Caycedo, Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, Tiffany Higgins, Márcia Wayna Kambeba, knowbotique, Davi Kopenawa, Ailton Krenak, Renata Machado, Maurício Meirelles, Harry Pinedo, Aníbal Quijano, Djamila Ribeiro, Pamela Rosenkranz, Abel Rodríguez, Maria Belén Saéz de Ibarra, Barbara Santos, Paulo Tavares, Daiara Tukano, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
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Amazonia as a place, a subject, a point of view, and a socio-ecological world.

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance. In all their various lines (and circles) of ecological and epistemological thought, the artists, elders, writers, theorists, shamans, curators, poets, and activists whose ideas, images, and struggles compose this book, are concerned with Amazonia as both a place and a point of view. Through the weaving of voices, myths, ancestors, and territories, and all their radical subjectivities, we understand language in this anthology in an extended sense: as testimony, textile, painting, river, forest, animal, ancestor, song, spirit, and sacred medicine. Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology inquires into decolonial feminisms and Indigenous temporalities, externalized memory and erasure, sacred plants in the shadow of pandemic corporate-state extractivism and systemic violence, the activist possibilities of the mythic imagination, and the common visual matrices of the Amazonian universe. The book also weighs the Western imaginary of the Amazon, both its colonial roots in racial capitalism and its corporate, technological, paternalistic present. Centered, however, is Amazonia itself, in all its many and numinous worlds and languages—visual, oral, botanical, ancestral, cosmological—by which it becomes narrated, passed on, and then narrated again.

Contributors
Maria Thereza Alves, Christian Bendayan, Rita Carelli, Felipe Castelblanco, Carolina Caycedo, Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, Tiffany Higgins, Márcia Wayna Kambeba, knowbotique, Davi Kopenawa, Ailton Krenak, Renata Machado, Maurício Meirelles, Harry Pinedo, Aníbal Quijano, Djamila Ribeiro, Pamela Rosenkranz, Abel Rodríguez, Maria Belén Saéz de Ibarra, Barbara Santos, Paulo Tavares, Daiara Tukano, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783956796111
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 05/03/2022
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 8.38(w) x 10.25(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Kateryna Botanova is a Basel-based cultural critic and curator from Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a cocurator of the multidisciplinary cultural festival Culturescapes (Basel, Switzerland).

Quinn Latimer is a writer and editor. Her books include Like a Woman (Sternberg Press), Sarah Lucas, and Film as a Form of Writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction Kateryna Botanova 6

Forest

Our Worlds Are at War Ailton Krenak Maurício Meirelies

Artworks Denilson Baniwa 14

Ignored, Simulated, Exploited Proyecto Cuenco de Cera 31

Cosmopolites of the Living María Belén Sáez de Ibarra 40

A Restless Painter: The Work of Shoyan Shëca (Roldán Pinedo) Gredna Landolt 52

The Crystal Forest: Notes on the Ontology of Amazonian Spirits Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 64

Luminous in the Sun: The Cool Botanical Fervor of Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu) Quinn Latimer 90

The Geological Imperative: On the Political Ecology of Amazonia's Deep History Paulo Tavares 102

Everything Is Our Territory, We Are Trees that Walk Renata Machado Tupinamba in Conversation Rita Carelli 130

Amazon and the Amazon Pamela Rosenkranz 140

The Umbragiade Maria Thereza Alves 152

River

Serpent River Book Carolina Caycedo 174

We Feel the Jungle Like We Feel Our Own Skin Taita Hernando Chindoy in Conversation Felipe Castelblanco 202

The Juruna and the Force House Tiffany Higgins 217

My Life Is a Continuous Return to the River's Headwaters Datara Tukano in Conversation Rita Carelli 232

Brazilian Black Feminism: Undoing Racial Democracy, Towards a World Ethic with Orixás Djamila Ribeiro

Artworks Maya Quilolo

Introduction Quinn Latimer 246

Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America Aníbal Quijano 262

Remote Sensations: A Critical Cartography of Remote Sensing knowbotiq 288

River Poems Márcia Wayna Kambeba 301

The Artivism of the Amazonian Mythic Imagination Christian Bendayan 307

The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomarni Shaman Davi Kopenawa Bruce Albert

Photographs Claudia Anduja

Introduction Kateryna Botanova 328

Biographies 342

Colophon 352

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