Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Reality of the Existence of a Spirit
I try to move beyond like they are just beliefs, or they are actual tangible beings. This is what I say that it's that that they are co emerging in the sense that they are the result of the multiple practices and relations people engage with in particular places. So this is a way of giving more ontological primacy to relations done to substances or materials. We can use those ways of knowing and being to rethink our own assumptions. And we should engage with those concepts with those philosophies to calling to question our own basic premises,. But also to show how biased our own culture is, and howbiased our own knowledge is.
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