C Tym
Biographic Data
| ID | 51434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Tym |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Tym |
| SIGNATURE | TYM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5547-9440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti-essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America
Post-structuralism's focus on hegemonic power, subjection, and political opportunity remains pre-eminent in political anthropology, but its appropriateness for the post-neoliberal conjuncture is up for question. While the arrival of neoliberal multiculturalism brought contingent identities and strategic deployment of culture-as-product into focus, questions remain about how and why some groups mobilize to claim cultural rights while others declin…
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West
Real knowledge emerges from 'impossible' worldviews. Or, put differently, it is possible to accept knowledge that is produced by people whose ontological presuppositions-their baseline assumptions about the nature of reality-one entirely rejects. How can this fact be accommodated, not by advancing a wishful post-dualism, dangerous post-secularism, or implausible ontological relativism, but by working within the tradition of secular political phil…
The Myth of Counter-modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador
Anti-extractivist critique still positions Indigenous people as protagonists of counter-modern political sentiment, whether as opponents of modernity's processes of productive rationalization and economic integration, or as embodying ontologies that reject modernity's conceptual separation of humanity from natural resources. Indigenous anti-extractivism is thus said to represent a rupture of modern politics in that it exceeds politics as we know …
Antropología ontológica e interculturalidad de la salud en el pueblo shuar de Zamora- Chinchipe
En este artículo se exponen aquellas conexiones entre la antropología anglosajona y la filosofía política de la interculturalidad, a las que se han prestado poca atención en América Latina. Específicamente, se detallan los aportes del llamado giro ontológico para desarrollar una teoría de la interculturalidad que abarque las diferencias entre pueblos indígenas y sociedades occidentales. Se argumenta que el concepto de “cultura” constituye un “equ…
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological concept in post-conversion Amazonia
The critique of belief as an analytical tool in anthropology has overshadowed belief as an ethnographic reality. This article short-circuits these debates over the politics of belief by elaborating ethnographically the indigenous use of the concept—literally the Spanish “creer” and “creencia”—in Shuar territory in post-conversion Amazonia. It shows that contemporary Shuar “belief” supersedes assumptions about belief as an epistemic commitment. Th…
Interculturalidad o ‘cultura’ a lo occidental? El rechazo indígena hacia la educación intercultural bilingüe
A pesar de ser un principio constitucional, la interculturalidad se encuentra en crisis en Ecuador. Un síntoma de esta crisis es el rechazo o indiferencia hacia la educación intercultural bilingüe (EIB) por parte de varios pueblos indígenas. A través de un estudio de caso de esta actitud por parte del pueblo shuar que reside en la provincia Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador, propongo que esta tiene sus orígenes en las políticas eurocéntricas de intercult…
Christian Modernisation in Amazonia: Emerging Materialism in Shuar Evangelicals’ Healing Practices
The project of ontological anthropology expounded by Philippe Descola has unexplored merits for a critical and secular anthropology of Christian conversion in indigenous societies. Drawing on Shuar descriptions of their healing practice in a context of medical pluralism in southeast Ecuador, this article argues that for animist peoples, Protestant Evangelicalism constitutes a step toward philosophical materialism or 'naturalism'. While Shuar heal…
Medicine as microcosm: Pharmaceutical bioprospecting and the political epistemology of nature in industrial-capitalist and indigenous Amazonian societies
Dynamics of economic and spatial rationalization are widely acknowledged characteristics of industrial-capitalist society, but the way in which these dynamics might shape the incorporation of so-called natural spaces into regimes of regulation and valuation is still being conceptualized in political ecology. Extending on the work of theorists who have documented and theorized the extension of neoliberal governance regimes over nature, this articl…
Tsunki Only See the Fish as Their Hens in Certain Rivers: Situating the Politics of Shuar Ontology in the Ecuadorian Intercultural State
The ontological turn in anthropology has triggered harsh criticism on political and epistemic grounds in recent years, channeling the disciplinary orthodoxy encapsulated in the Barbados Declaration and Writing Culture. Drawing from ethnographic material on ontologically based preferences between ancestral health-seeking practices and state health care on Shuar territory in southeastern Ecuador, I point out that the appreciation and articulation o…
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology
Whose Rights? Freedom-of-Expression Critiques of Ecuadorian Media Democratization
Despite its media reforms designed to democratize the country's media landscape, the Ecuadorian government has been subject to constant condemnation from major U.S.-based human rights organizations on freedom-of-expression grounds. A close examination of these critiques and the Ecuadorian media reforms to which they correspond and a comparison of the Ecuadorian government's and critical human rights organizations' positions with liberal scholarsh…
Tsunki Only See the Fish as Their Hens in Certain Rivers: Situating the Politics of Shuar Ontology in the Ecuadorian Intercultural State
The ontological turn in anthropology has triggered harsh criticism on political and epistemic grounds in recent years, channeling the disciplinary orthodoxy encapsulated in the Barbados Declaration and Writing Culture. Drawing from ethnographic material on ontologically based preferences between ancestral health-seeking practices and state health care on Shuar territory in southeastern Ecuador, I point out that the appreciation and articulation o…
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West
Real knowledge emerges from 'impossible' worldviews. Or, put differently, it is possible to accept knowledge that is produced by people whose ontological presuppositions-their baseline assumptions about the nature of reality-one entirely rejects. How can this fact be accommodated, not by advancing a wishful post-dualism, dangerous post-secularism, or implausible ontological relativism, but by working within the tradition of secular political phil…
Christian Modernisation in Amazonia: Emerging Materialism in Shuar Evangelicals’ Healing Practices
The project of ontological anthropology expounded by Philippe Descola has unexplored merits for a critical and secular anthropology of Christian conversion in indigenous societies. Drawing on Shuar descriptions of their healing practice in a context of medical pluralism in southeast Ecuador, this article argues that for animist peoples, Protestant Evangelicalism constitutes a step toward philosophical materialism or 'naturalism'. While Shuar heal…
Medicine as microcosm: Pharmaceutical bioprospecting and the political epistemology of nature in industrial-capitalist and indigenous Amazonian societies
Dynamics of economic and spatial rationalization are widely acknowledged characteristics of industrial-capitalist society, but the way in which these dynamics might shape the incorporation of so-called natural spaces into regimes of regulation and valuation is still being conceptualized in political ecology. Extending on the work of theorists who have documented and theorized the extension of neoliberal governance regimes over nature, this articl…
Whose Rights? Freedom-of-Expression Critiques of Ecuadorian Media Democratization
Despite its media reforms designed to democratize the country's media landscape, the Ecuadorian government has been subject to constant condemnation from major U.S.-based human rights organizations on freedom-of-expression grounds. A close examination of these critiques and the Ecuadorian media reforms to which they correspond and a comparison of the Ecuadorian government's and critical human rights organizations' positions with liberal scholarsh…
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology
Medicine as microcosm: Pharmaceutical bioprospecting and the political epistemology of nature in industrial-capitalist and indigenous Amazonian societies
Dynamics of economic and spatial rationalization are widely acknowledged characteristics of industrial-capitalist society, but the way in which these dynamics might shape the incorporation of so-called natural spaces into regimes of regulation and valuation is still being conceptualized in political ecology. Extending on the work of theorists who have documented and theorized the extension of neoliberal governance regimes over nature, this articl…
Tsunki Only See the Fish as Their Hens in Certain Rivers: Situating the Politics of Shuar Ontology in the Ecuadorian Intercultural State
The ontological turn in anthropology has triggered harsh criticism on political and epistemic grounds in recent years, channeling the disciplinary orthodoxy encapsulated in the Barbados Declaration and Writing Culture. Drawing from ethnographic material on ontologically based preferences between ancestral health-seeking practices and state health care on Shuar territory in southeastern Ecuador, I point out that the appreciation and articulation o…
Antropología ontológica e interculturalidad de la salud en el pueblo shuar de Zamora- Chinchipe
En este artículo se exponen aquellas conexiones entre la antropología anglosajona y la filosofía política de la interculturalidad, a las que se han prestado poca atención en América Latina. Específicamente, se detallan los aportes del llamado giro ontológico para desarrollar una teoría de la interculturalidad que abarque las diferencias entre pueblos indígenas y sociedades occidentales. Se argumenta que el concepto de “cultura” constituye un “equ…
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological concept in post-conversion Amazonia
The critique of belief as an analytical tool in anthropology has overshadowed belief as an ethnographic reality. This article short-circuits these debates over the politics of belief by elaborating ethnographically the indigenous use of the concept—literally the Spanish “creer” and “creencia”—in Shuar territory in post-conversion Amazonia. It shows that contemporary Shuar “belief” supersedes assumptions about belief as an epistemic commitment. Th…
Interculturalidad o ‘cultura’ a lo occidental? El rechazo indígena hacia la educación intercultural bilingüe
A pesar de ser un principio constitucional, la interculturalidad se encuentra en crisis en Ecuador. Un síntoma de esta crisis es el rechazo o indiferencia hacia la educación intercultural bilingüe (EIB) por parte de varios pueblos indígenas. A través de un estudio de caso de esta actitud por parte del pueblo shuar que reside en la provincia Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador, propongo que esta tiene sus orígenes en las políticas eurocéntricas de intercult…
Christian Modernisation in Amazonia: Emerging Materialism in Shuar Evangelicals’ Healing Practices
The project of ontological anthropology expounded by Philippe Descola has unexplored merits for a critical and secular anthropology of Christian conversion in indigenous societies. Drawing on Shuar descriptions of their healing practice in a context of medical pluralism in southeast Ecuador, this article argues that for animist peoples, Protestant Evangelicalism constitutes a step toward philosophical materialism or 'naturalism'. While Shuar heal…
The Myth of Counter-modern Ontologies: Indigenous People and the Modern Politics of Extractivism in Ecuador
Anti-extractivist critique still positions Indigenous people as protagonists of counter-modern political sentiment, whether as opponents of modernity's processes of productive rationalization and economic integration, or as embodying ontologies that reject modernity's conceptual separation of humanity from natural resources. Indigenous anti-extractivism is thus said to represent a rupture of modern politics in that it exceeds politics as we know …
Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti-essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America
Post-structuralism's focus on hegemonic power, subjection, and political opportunity remains pre-eminent in political anthropology, but its appropriateness for the post-neoliberal conjuncture is up for question. While the arrival of neoliberal multiculturalism brought contingent identities and strategic deployment of culture-as-product into focus, questions remain about how and why some groups mobilize to claim cultural rights while others declin…
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West
Real knowledge emerges from 'impossible' worldviews. Or, put differently, it is possible to accept knowledge that is produced by people whose ontological presuppositions-their baseline assumptions about the nature of reality-one entirely rejects. How can this fact be accommodated, not by advancing a wishful post-dualism, dangerous post-secularism, or implausible ontological relativism, but by working within the tradition of secular political phil…
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