Stefano Varese
Biographic Data
| ID | 366167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Varese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Varese |
| SIGNATURE | VARESE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shaping Natural Regions. Capitalism, Environment, and the Geography of Post-Colonial Peru
During millennia Amazonia has shaped herself as an integrated cosmos of tangible and intangible beings interweaved as a totality of relatives. This indigenous non-anthropocentric civilizational construction can be better defined by the neologism cosmocentric rather than contemporary ecological terms such as biocentric or geocentric, which emphasize exclusively the materialistic component of the whole system. Colonial and capitalist occupation of …
Ethical Cosmologies in Amazonia
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 intelligen…
Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance
Any attempt to make meaningful and valid generalizations about the contemporary indigenous peoples of the Americas is a daunting task given their vast geographical extension and wide variation in social forms and living conditions. The durability of the indigenas called for a different theoretical perspective. The working notion of this theory is that social identity is formed largely in opposition to others in a dialectic of what are called "oth…
Los fundamentos éticos de las cosmologías indígenas
Este artículo se propone recoger de modo sintético los fundamentos éticos y racionales de los pueblos indígenas de América en su relación con la naturaleza-mundo. Parte de una crítica de la razón occidental antropocéntrica, incluyendo los avatares neo-liberal y neo-colonial del complejo socio-ideológico modernidad-colonialismo-capitalismo. En la ética de los pueblos indígenas, sean agrarios o forrajeros, la naturaleza tiene una función axiológica…
Relations between the Andes and the Upper Amazon
Peoples and biotas of the Andes and Amazonia have been interacting for millennia, influencing each other through complex dynamics of biological, social, and cultural adaptations. The 16th-century Spanish invasion introduced radical technological, ideological, and political changes that altered fundamentally the forms of ecological and social coexistence that had been in place for thousands of years. Indigenous peoples of the two areas as well as …
Selva vida: De la destrucción de la Amazonia al paradigma de la regeneración
Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados
This chapter contains sections titled: The Past in the Future The Dialectics of Liberation: Native Americans and Anthropologists Indigenous Peoples in the Anthropologist's Classroom History Reclaimed The Aymara Example Asserting Different Voices in the Andes Knowledge as Resistance History, Ecology, and Indigenous Resistance The Dialectics of Opposition: Indigenous Anthropologies Notes References
Notas sobre territorialidad, sacralidad y economía política bennizá/binigula'/beneshon
In the following paper, we attempt to re-evaluate the rise of complex societies in the Valley of Oaxaca based on indigenous conceptualizations of land, territory and “resources” as components within a broader Mesoamerican cosmological system. In so doing, we challenge Eurocentric theoretical models of the emergence of civilization that rely on a uniform linear progression, and we articulate an approach that seeks to integrate both material and id…
Witness to Sovereignty: Essays on the Indian Movement in Latin America
Indigenous Movements and their Critics: Pan-Mayan Activism in Guatemala
Kay B. Warren’s inspiring book is both a personal confession and a public revelation. From its overture, the author admits that it is not possible anymore to write about social movements, ethnic politics, and indigenous people struggle for autonomy without becoming totally submerged in the movement. Such an option would put the researcher at risk of losing some of the alleged “scientific objectivity” and thus weakening the scholarly credibility o…
Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignties: A Hemispheric Convocation. An Overview and Reflections on a United States/Mexico Binational Two-Part Conference
Stefano Varese, Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignties: A Hemispheric Convocation. An Overview and Reflections on a United States/Mexico Binational Two-Part Conference, Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Emergent Ideas in Native American Studies (Autumn, 1999), pp. 77-91
Identidad y Destierro: Los pueblos indígenas ante la globalización
Los crímenes de lesa humanidad ocurridos en el marco de un conflicto armado, cuando no sean investigados por los Estados parte por su falta de voluntad o capacidad para perseguirlos, serán competencia de la CPI. Sin embargo, la intervención de la Corte en contextos de elaboración de procesos de paz, con ocasión de un conflicto armado, ha demostrado el interés selectivo e ineficiente de la CPI para prevenir la ocurrencia de los crímenes señalados.…
The Ethnopolitics of Indian Resistance in Latin America
The Indian was, of course, invented by European colonialism. In the years immediately following the invasion of the Americas, the Spaniards constructed Indians as an epistemological category that has served, since then, the dual purpose of occluding the complexity and diversity of civilization found in this hemisphere and leaving them with a diminished, uncertain social identity. Since the early 16th century to be Indian in America has been a rec…
Restoring Multiplicity: Indianities and the Civilizing Project in Latin America
Deux versions cosmogoniques campa: Esquisse Analytique
Nous allons exposer dans les pages qui suivent, d'une manière schématique, quelques considérations à propos de deux récits mythologiques des Campa de la forêt centrale du Pérou. On peut classer les versions que nous allons analyser dans la catégorie des récits cosmogoniques ; cependant nous croyons qu'il s'agit de fragments de deux mythes d'origines qui, bien que provenant d'une même aire culturelle - Campa -, concernent aussi d'autres zones géog…
Calendar of Meetings
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Las minorías étnicas de la montaña peruana
La "montaña" peruana es una de esas pocas zonas-refugio de América del Sur, donde aún permanecen en relativo aislamiento étnico numerosos grupos indígenas. Este artículo intenta señalar la urgencia de las investigaciones antropológicas y de las acciones de orientación, asesoría y formación de la opinión pública por parte de la antropología
The Ethnopolitics of Indian Resistance in Latin America
The Indian was, of course, invented by European colonialism. In the years immediately following the invasion of the Americas, the Spaniards constructed Indians as an epistemological category that has served, since then, the dual purpose of occluding the complexity and diversity of civilization found in this hemisphere and leaving them with a diminished, uncertain social identity. Since the early 16th century to be Indian in America has been a rec…
Restoring Multiplicity: Indianities and the Civilizing Project in Latin America
Shaping Natural Regions. Capitalism, Environment, and the Geography of Post-Colonial Peru
During millennia Amazonia has shaped herself as an integrated cosmos of tangible and intangible beings interweaved as a totality of relatives. This indigenous non-anthropocentric civilizational construction can be better defined by the neologism cosmocentric rather than contemporary ecological terms such as biocentric or geocentric, which emphasize exclusively the materialistic component of the whole system. Colonial and capitalist occupation of …
Los fundamentos éticos de las cosmologías indígenas
Este artículo se propone recoger de modo sintético los fundamentos éticos y racionales de los pueblos indígenas de América en su relación con la naturaleza-mundo. Parte de una crítica de la razón occidental antropocéntrica, incluyendo los avatares neo-liberal y neo-colonial del complejo socio-ideológico modernidad-colonialismo-capitalismo. En la ética de los pueblos indígenas, sean agrarios o forrajeros, la naturaleza tiene una función axiológica…
Las minorías étnicas de la montaña peruana
La "montaña" peruana es una de esas pocas zonas-refugio de América del Sur, donde aún permanecen en relativo aislamiento étnico numerosos grupos indígenas. Este artículo intenta señalar la urgencia de las investigaciones antropológicas y de las acciones de orientación, asesoría y formación de la opinión pública por parte de la antropología
Calendar of Meetings
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Deux versions cosmogoniques campa: Esquisse Analytique
Nous allons exposer dans les pages qui suivent, d'une manière schématique, quelques considérations à propos de deux récits mythologiques des Campa de la forêt centrale du Pérou. On peut classer les versions que nous allons analyser dans la catégorie des récits cosmogoniques ; cependant nous croyons qu'il s'agit de fragments de deux mythes d'origines qui, bien que provenant d'une même aire culturelle - Campa -, concernent aussi d'autres zones géog…
Restoring Multiplicity: Indianities and the Civilizing Project in Latin America
The Ethnopolitics of Indian Resistance in Latin America
The Indian was, of course, invented by European colonialism. In the years immediately following the invasion of the Americas, the Spaniards constructed Indians as an epistemological category that has served, since then, the dual purpose of occluding the complexity and diversity of civilization found in this hemisphere and leaving them with a diminished, uncertain social identity. Since the early 16th century to be Indian in America has been a rec…
Identidad y Destierro: Los pueblos indígenas ante la globalización
Los crímenes de lesa humanidad ocurridos en el marco de un conflicto armado, cuando no sean investigados por los Estados parte por su falta de voluntad o capacidad para perseguirlos, serán competencia de la CPI. Sin embargo, la intervención de la Corte en contextos de elaboración de procesos de paz, con ocasión de un conflicto armado, ha demostrado el interés selectivo e ineficiente de la CPI para prevenir la ocurrencia de los crímenes señalados.…
Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignties: A Hemispheric Convocation. An Overview and Reflections on a United States/Mexico Binational Two-Part Conference
Stefano Varese, Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignties: A Hemispheric Convocation. An Overview and Reflections on a United States/Mexico Binational Two-Part Conference, Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Emergent Ideas in Native American Studies (Autumn, 1999), pp. 77-91
Indigenous Movements and their Critics: Pan-Mayan Activism in Guatemala
Kay B. Warren’s inspiring book is both a personal confession and a public revelation. From its overture, the author admits that it is not possible anymore to write about social movements, ethnic politics, and indigenous people struggle for autonomy without becoming totally submerged in the movement. Such an option would put the researcher at risk of losing some of the alleged “scientific objectivity” and thus weakening the scholarly credibility o…
Notas sobre territorialidad, sacralidad y economía política bennizá/binigula'/beneshon
In the following paper, we attempt to re-evaluate the rise of complex societies in the Valley of Oaxaca based on indigenous conceptualizations of land, territory and “resources” as components within a broader Mesoamerican cosmological system. In so doing, we challenge Eurocentric theoretical models of the emergence of civilization that rely on a uniform linear progression, and we articulate an approach that seeks to integrate both material and id…
Witness to Sovereignty: Essays on the Indian Movement in Latin America
Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados
This chapter contains sections titled: The Past in the Future The Dialectics of Liberation: Native Americans and Anthropologists Indigenous Peoples in the Anthropologist's Classroom History Reclaimed The Aymara Example Asserting Different Voices in the Andes Knowledge as Resistance History, Ecology, and Indigenous Resistance The Dialectics of Opposition: Indigenous Anthropologies Notes References
Selva vida: De la destrucción de la Amazonia al paradigma de la regeneración
Relations between the Andes and the Upper Amazon
Peoples and biotas of the Andes and Amazonia have been interacting for millennia, influencing each other through complex dynamics of biological, social, and cultural adaptations. The 16th-century Spanish invasion introduced radical technological, ideological, and political changes that altered fundamentally the forms of ecological and social coexistence that had been in place for thousands of years. Indigenous peoples of the two areas as well as …
Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance
Any attempt to make meaningful and valid generalizations about the contemporary indigenous peoples of the Americas is a daunting task given their vast geographical extension and wide variation in social forms and living conditions. The durability of the indigenas called for a different theoretical perspective. The working notion of this theory is that social identity is formed largely in opposition to others in a dialectic of what are called "oth…
Los fundamentos éticos de las cosmologías indígenas
Este artículo se propone recoger de modo sintético los fundamentos éticos y racionales de los pueblos indígenas de América en su relación con la naturaleza-mundo. Parte de una crítica de la razón occidental antropocéntrica, incluyendo los avatares neo-liberal y neo-colonial del complejo socio-ideológico modernidad-colonialismo-capitalismo. En la ética de los pueblos indígenas, sean agrarios o forrajeros, la naturaleza tiene una función axiológica…
Ethical Cosmologies in Amazonia
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 intelligen…
Shaping Natural Regions. Capitalism, Environment, and the Geography of Post-Colonial Peru
During millennia Amazonia has shaped herself as an integrated cosmos of tangible and intangible beings interweaved as a totality of relatives. This indigenous non-anthropocentric civilizational construction can be better defined by the neologism cosmocentric rather than contemporary ecological terms such as biocentric or geocentric, which emphasize exclusively the materialistic component of the whole system. Colonial and capitalist occupation of …
Political science (11 works) · History (9 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Humanities (5 works)