F Mezzenzana
Biographic Data
| ID | 31742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Mezzenzana |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Mezzenzana |
| SIGNATURE | MEZZENZANA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collège de France |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0867-4715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Growing Up in the Face of Change: Environmental Transformation and Child Socialisation in Indigenous South America
The relationship of humans with the nonhuman world has become a central topic in anthropology in recent years. This has also led to a renewed interest in Indigenous communities, as those most vulnerable to environmental change, while also offering alternative modes of relating to the environment. But very little attention has been paid to children in such debates. Children will suffer the long-term consequences of changes. In turn, modes of relat…
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy: Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities
To Live Like ‘People’: Drinking and Weakness of Will among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon
"Poor brain development" in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions
Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)-an applied field with the aim to improve the "brain structure and function" of future generations in the global South-has moved to the center of international development. Global ECD rests heavily on evidence claims about widespread cognitive, social, and emotional deficits in the global South and the benefits of changing parenting practices in order to optimize early childhood development. We challenge th…
Between Will and Thought: Individualism and Social Responsiveness in Amazonian Child Rearing
This article provides an ethnographic account of how moral dispositions toward independence and social responsiveness are forged during infancy and toddlerhood among the Runa, an Indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I show how two local concepts, munay (will) and yuyay (thought) shape children's early experiences of the self and the self in relation to others. In particular, I argue that, unlike middle-class Anglo-Americans who repute pate…
Moving alike: Movement and human-nonhuman relationships among the Runa (Ecuadorian Amazon)
In this paper I suggest that an analysis of movement can offer a fresh perspective through which to look at human–nonhuman relationships in Amazonia and beyond. Focusing on some examples from my ethnographic work among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon, I explore how movement constitutes an important means through which similarity with nonhumans is constituted in everyday practice. Movement, as a common quality that human and nonhumans share, ena…
EncounteringSupai: An Ecology of Spiritual Perception in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In this article I set out to draw an "ecology" of spiritual perception among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In particular, I look at the ways in whichsupaibeings-forest spirits-are perceived by the Runa through two main sensory modalities: smelling and dreaming. Inspired by recent advances in the anthropology of religious learning, I then explore how certain Runa people-those who have undertaken a bodily training known assasi-are more likely …
Difference Revised: Gender and Transformation among the Amazonian Runa
In this paper, I will explore how knowledge practices among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon are informed by the specificity of local gender constructions. I will argue that while men learn to be 'proper' persons primarily through the ingestion of substances which penetrate inside their bodies and change them from the interior, women learn to become 'proper' Runa through imitating and reproducing specific movements. This difference in learning r…
Sacha Muskuy (Forest Dream)
"Doing it like Real Runa Women and Men" A Runa Ceremonial Festival
This Special Topics is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please
"Poor brain development" in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions
Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)-an applied field with the aim to improve the "brain structure and function" of future generations in the global South-has moved to the center of international development. Global ECD rests heavily on evidence claims about widespread cognitive, social, and emotional deficits in the global South and the benefits of changing parenting practices in order to optimize early childhood development. We challenge th…
Between Will and Thought: Individualism and Social Responsiveness in Amazonian Child Rearing
This article provides an ethnographic account of how moral dispositions toward independence and social responsiveness are forged during infancy and toddlerhood among the Runa, an Indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I show how two local concepts, munay (will) and yuyay (thought) shape children's early experiences of the self and the self in relation to others. In particular, I argue that, unlike middle-class Anglo-Americans who repute pate…
EncounteringSupai: An Ecology of Spiritual Perception in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In this article I set out to draw an "ecology" of spiritual perception among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In particular, I look at the ways in whichsupaibeings-forest spirits-are perceived by the Runa through two main sensory modalities: smelling and dreaming. Inspired by recent advances in the anthropology of religious learning, I then explore how certain Runa people-those who have undertaken a bodily training known assasi-are more likely …
Difference Revised: Gender and Transformation among the Amazonian Runa
In this paper, I will explore how knowledge practices among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon are informed by the specificity of local gender constructions. I will argue that while men learn to be 'proper' persons primarily through the ingestion of substances which penetrate inside their bodies and change them from the interior, women learn to become 'proper' Runa through imitating and reproducing specific movements. This difference in learning r…
"Doing it like Real Runa Women and Men" A Runa Ceremonial Festival
This Special Topics is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please
"Doing it like Real Runa Women and Men" A Runa Ceremonial Festival
This Special Topics is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please
Sacha Muskuy (Forest Dream)
Moving alike: Movement and human-nonhuman relationships among the Runa (Ecuadorian Amazon)
In this paper I suggest that an analysis of movement can offer a fresh perspective through which to look at human–nonhuman relationships in Amazonia and beyond. Focusing on some examples from my ethnographic work among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon, I explore how movement constitutes an important means through which similarity with nonhumans is constituted in everyday practice. Movement, as a common quality that human and nonhumans share, ena…
EncounteringSupai: An Ecology of Spiritual Perception in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In this article I set out to draw an "ecology" of spiritual perception among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In particular, I look at the ways in whichsupaibeings-forest spirits-are perceived by the Runa through two main sensory modalities: smelling and dreaming. Inspired by recent advances in the anthropology of religious learning, I then explore how certain Runa people-those who have undertaken a bodily training known assasi-are more likely …
Difference Revised: Gender and Transformation among the Amazonian Runa
In this paper, I will explore how knowledge practices among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon are informed by the specificity of local gender constructions. I will argue that while men learn to be 'proper' persons primarily through the ingestion of substances which penetrate inside their bodies and change them from the interior, women learn to become 'proper' Runa through imitating and reproducing specific movements. This difference in learning r…
Between Will and Thought: Individualism and Social Responsiveness in Amazonian Child Rearing
This article provides an ethnographic account of how moral dispositions toward independence and social responsiveness are forged during infancy and toddlerhood among the Runa, an Indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I show how two local concepts, munay (will) and yuyay (thought) shape children's early experiences of the self and the self in relation to others. In particular, I argue that, unlike middle-class Anglo-Americans who repute pate…
To Live Like ‘People’: Drinking and Weakness of Will among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon
"Poor brain development" in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions
Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)-an applied field with the aim to improve the "brain structure and function" of future generations in the global South-has moved to the center of international development. Global ECD rests heavily on evidence claims about widespread cognitive, social, and emotional deficits in the global South and the benefits of changing parenting practices in order to optimize early childhood development. We challenge th…
Growing Up in the Face of Change: Environmental Transformation and Child Socialisation in Indigenous South America
The relationship of humans with the nonhuman world has become a central topic in anthropology in recent years. This has also led to a renewed interest in Indigenous communities, as those most vulnerable to environmental change, while also offering alternative modes of relating to the environment. But very little attention has been paid to children in such debates. Children will suffer the long-term consequences of changes. In turn, modes of relat…
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy: Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Amazon rainforest (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)