{"pk":37934,"title":"Ethical Cosmologies in Amazonia","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this article, I am making the argument that addressing issues of cultural and social representations of Peruvian Amazonia by the national community – both political civil society – with a narrow temporal synchronic and spatial materialistic perspective (three or four hundred years of history and the reduction of bio-physical diversity to a few commoditized “resources”) lessens drastically our ability to fully understand and interact intelligently and ethically with this vast portion of Peru’s national territory. I am proposing the qualitative shift to an emic way of thinking and analyzing Amazonia, that is to say adopting the indigenous way of knowing and co-existing with the forest as a living entity peopled by thinking and feeling entities with will, intentionality and teleological energy-synergy.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Copyright","short_name":"Copyright","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[{"word":"Indigenous Cosmologies"},{"word":"Indigenous epistemologies"},{"word":"Ethics"},{"word":"capitalism"},{"word":"Peruvian Amazon."}],"section":"ECOSSOCIAL HUMAN RIGHTS","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f18z302","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stefano","middle_name":"","last_name":"Varese","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-12-31T20:58:06Z","date_accepted":"2020-12-31T20:58:06Z","date_published":"2020-12-31T22:21:03Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/mester/article/37934/galley/28561/download/"}]}