What is it about?
The paper explores how a climate scientist and an Amazonian shaman rephrase their understandings of the (human) body and nature in order to pursue a common ecopolitical goal: the protection of the rainforest.
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Why is it important?
The article emphasizes how people draw personal connections (not only ontological differences) when there is a will to confront environmental crises
Perspectives
The debate around the ontological turn in anthropology has given room to a great deal of misunderstanding. This article tries to bridge some of the gaps I have detected in ongoing discussions, and proposes a way of revising the theory by looking at specific interactions, instead of basing the theory on the general contrasts between the ethnographic Self and its Others.
Anibal Arregui
Universitat Wien
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This page is a summary of: Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism, Anthropological Theory, February 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1463499617753335.
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