Indigenous Women’s Politics of Care
Human and medicinal plants vital connections in the Caititu Land, Brazilian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136589 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus Schall Enk (0000-0001-9097-5116), Luciana Kind (0000-0002-0327-0722) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archivio antropologico mediterraneo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2038-3215 • E-ISSN: 2038-3215 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/145ow |
| OpenAlex | W4411455538 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
In this paper we describe the establishment of medicinal plantbeds as part of the Takatxi Nhipukutximyna project in the Caititu Indigenous Land, located in the Purus Region of the Brazilian Amazon. Based on an ethnographic and narrative research conducted between 2023 and 2024, it examines how indigenous women’s practices with medicinal plants challenge anthropocentric paradigms of health while reclaiming an indigenous way of living. We describe how plants like rue (arruda) reciprocate human care by offering protection and healing of the human and plant communities. The human-plant alliance sustains the interdependence between human and plant well-being by engaging with owners-of-nature - beings that protect the environment and its inhabitants. Based on our research’s post-colonial setting, we suggest intersectionality and indigenous perspectives to provide novel understandings of multispecies frameworks of relational health
Alliance · Amazon rainforest · Anthropocentrism · Biology · Ethnography · Geography · Indigenous · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies · Ecology
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Narrativas do Cuidar
Mulheres Indígenas em Movimentos
Relational health
Espíritos Não Humanos, Espíritos Desumanos
Hope in blasted landscapes
Donos demais
O bom patrão e o inimigo voraz
O olhar envenenado
Nurturing the Other
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
Babies, Bodies, and the Production of Personhood in North America and a Native Amazonian Society
Beinghood and people-making in native Amazonia
Animacy of Plants
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia
Relational Plants and Apurinã's Multibeing Life-Making
Multimodality
The Intersubjective Life of Cassava among the Waiwai
Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History
Life in three scenarios
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |