Frederique Apffel-Marglin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederique Apffel-Marglin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederique |
| FAMILY NAME | Apffel-Marglin |
| SIGNATURE | APFFEL-MARGLIN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Co-Creating Commons with Earth Others
In this article, I examine the onto-epistemological process of colonization that has led to the industrial revolution and the western modern way of exploiting an insentient, inert and mechanical nature. I propose that it is only through a non-anthropocentric, non-hierarchical, and reciprocal co-animation between humans and earth others that we can decolonize the master’s story of nature (as well as of society) and thus be able to create true comm…
Weaving the Body and the Cosmos
This paper explores the cultural context and ecological implications of two menstrual festivals in northeastern India: Rajaparba in Orissa and Ambuvaci in Kamakhya, Assam. We argue that these festivals are extremely fruitful sites to explore questions of women and power in religious communities where the Goddess is a central focus as well as their ecological implications for an integral worldview. These festivals, usually held at the beginning of…
Post-Materialist Integral Ecology
This essay is an example of a post-materialist science in the work of molecular biologist Candace Pert. Post-materialist science supersedes materialist-reductionist science and integrates spirituality with materiality. This discussion is motivated by the author’s experience as an academic in a New England institution. Integral ecology is entangled with post-material science as in the work of cosmologist Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry and Mary-Evelyn …
Absent Mother God of the West
The regenerated chacra of the Kichwa-Lamistas
This article compares Western permaculture theory and practice with the indigenous agricultural system of the Kichwa-Lamistas in the Department of San Martin in High Amazon Peru. It draws on indigenous theory and collaborations with the Kichwa-Lamistas to argue that the bioculture of the latter represents an alternative not only to modern, industrialized agriculture but also to permaculture. The article profiles the agroecological system used by …
Subversive SpiritualitiesHow Rituals Enact the World
This book takes as a starting premise the insight that non-humans have agency, which was established predominantly in the field of science studies. It argues that rituals engage not “supernatural beings” but humans with other-than-humans. Other-than-humans are entities characterized by an entanglement of the human and the non-human aspects of the world. The book rejects the label “supernatural beings” since it implies a realm of nature as a pre-g…
Dancing with the Mountain in the AltiplanoThe Festival of the Ispallas
Chapter 7 is in a narrative voice, in order to capture how humans, non-humans, and other-than-humans all ritually dance their world into continued existence. At the festival of the Ispallas, people make offerings to Pachamama (earth deity) who is pregnant with the new potatoes. The whole community dances up their mountain Apu (deity), around the potato fields, and down the mountain. Offerings are given to the fields and to the fire. A young pregn…
Subversive spiritualities
Even in the twenty-first century, some two-thirds of the world's peoples quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue to be loved or feared or both, continue to accompany human beings in all their activities. In Subversive Spiritualities, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with…
From Fieldwork to Mutual Learning
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge. The three members of PRATEC were engaged in different aspects of the development enterprise. Out of their perceived failure of that enterprise, they deprofessionalised themselves and founded this NGO. The author argues that within the professional academic disciplines it is impossible to produce a knowledge…
Secularism, unicity and diversity
This paper argues that secularism as a concept and practice arose from the need in 16th and 17th century Europe to create a neutral space making possible intra- as well as inter-State discourse. This neutral space was from the beginning part of the emerging scientific revolution; it transposed in a different key the dogmatic unicity of the two warring religious denominations. Secular science created the 'sacred/spiritual' as an other-worldly doma…
Decolonizing Knowledge
Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of ‘externalities’. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word ‘development’ and its cognates ‘underdevelopment’ and ‘developing’ confidently mark the ‘first’ world as the future of the ‘third’. This book ar…
Decolonizing Knowledge
Development failures, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side-effects or 'externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word 'development' and its cognates 'underdevelopment' and 'developing' confidently mark the 'first world' as the future of the 'third'. This book a…
Colonizing the Body
Gender and the Unitary Self
From Fieldwork to Mutual Learning
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge. The three members of PRATEC were engaged in different aspects of the development enterprise. Out of their perceived failure of that enterprise, they deprofessionalised themselves and founded this NGO. The author argues that within the professional academic disciplines it is impossible to produce a knowledge…
Secularism, unicity and diversity
This paper argues that secularism as a concept and practice arose from the need in 16th and 17th century Europe to create a neutral space making possible intra- as well as inter-State discourse. This neutral space was from the beginning part of the emerging scientific revolution; it transposed in a different key the dogmatic unicity of the two warring religious denominations. Secular science created the 'sacred/spiritual' as an other-worldly doma…
The regenerated chacra of the Kichwa-Lamistas
This article compares Western permaculture theory and practice with the indigenous agricultural system of the Kichwa-Lamistas in the Department of San Martin in High Amazon Peru. It draws on indigenous theory and collaborations with the Kichwa-Lamistas to argue that the bioculture of the latter represents an alternative not only to modern, industrialized agriculture but also to permaculture. The article profiles the agroecological system used by …
Gender and the Unitary Self
Gender and the Unitary Self
Decolonizing Knowledge
Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of ‘externalities’. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word ‘development’ and its cognates ‘underdevelopment’ and ‘developing’ confidently mark the ‘first’ world as the future of the ‘third’. This book ar…
Decolonizing Knowledge
Development failures, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side-effects or 'externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word 'development' and its cognates 'underdevelopment' and 'developing' confidently mark the 'first world' as the future of the 'third'. This book a…
Colonizing the Body
Secularism, unicity and diversity
This paper argues that secularism as a concept and practice arose from the need in 16th and 17th century Europe to create a neutral space making possible intra- as well as inter-State discourse. This neutral space was from the beginning part of the emerging scientific revolution; it transposed in a different key the dogmatic unicity of the two warring religious denominations. Secular science created the 'sacred/spiritual' as an other-worldly doma…
From Fieldwork to Mutual Learning
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge. The three members of PRATEC were engaged in different aspects of the development enterprise. Out of their perceived failure of that enterprise, they deprofessionalised themselves and founded this NGO. The author argues that within the professional academic disciplines it is impossible to produce a knowledge…
Subversive spiritualities
Even in the twenty-first century, some two-thirds of the world's peoples quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue to be loved or feared or both, continue to accompany human beings in all their activities. In Subversive Spiritualities, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with…
Subversive SpiritualitiesHow Rituals Enact the World
This book takes as a starting premise the insight that non-humans have agency, which was established predominantly in the field of science studies. It argues that rituals engage not “supernatural beings” but humans with other-than-humans. Other-than-humans are entities characterized by an entanglement of the human and the non-human aspects of the world. The book rejects the label “supernatural beings” since it implies a realm of nature as a pre-g…
Dancing with the Mountain in the AltiplanoThe Festival of the Ispallas
Chapter 7 is in a narrative voice, in order to capture how humans, non-humans, and other-than-humans all ritually dance their world into continued existence. At the festival of the Ispallas, people make offerings to Pachamama (earth deity) who is pregnant with the new potatoes. The whole community dances up their mountain Apu (deity), around the potato fields, and down the mountain. Offerings are given to the fields and to the fire. A young pregn…
Post-Materialist Integral Ecology
This essay is an example of a post-materialist science in the work of molecular biologist Candace Pert. Post-materialist science supersedes materialist-reductionist science and integrates spirituality with materiality. This discussion is motivated by the author’s experience as an academic in a New England institution. Integral ecology is entangled with post-material science as in the work of cosmologist Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry and Mary-Evelyn …
Absent Mother God of the West
The regenerated chacra of the Kichwa-Lamistas
This article compares Western permaculture theory and practice with the indigenous agricultural system of the Kichwa-Lamistas in the Department of San Martin in High Amazon Peru. It draws on indigenous theory and collaborations with the Kichwa-Lamistas to argue that the bioculture of the latter represents an alternative not only to modern, industrialized agriculture but also to permaculture. The article profiles the agroecological system used by …
Co-Creating Commons with Earth Others
In this article, I examine the onto-epistemological process of colonization that has led to the industrial revolution and the western modern way of exploiting an insentient, inert and mechanical nature. I propose that it is only through a non-anthropocentric, non-hierarchical, and reciprocal co-animation between humans and earth others that we can decolonize the master’s story of nature (as well as of society) and thus be able to create true comm…
Weaving the Body and the Cosmos
This paper explores the cultural context and ecological implications of two menstrual festivals in northeastern India: Rajaparba in Orissa and Ambuvaci in Kamakhya, Assam. We argue that these festivals are extremely fruitful sites to explore questions of women and power in religious communities where the Goddess is a central focus as well as their ecological implications for an integral worldview. These festivals, usually held at the beginning of…
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works)