David Maybury-Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 60 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Maybury-Lewis |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Maybury-Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | MAYBURY-LEWIS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1330-2601 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1960 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Total peace and Afro-Colombia
De la guerra de Putin al cambio climático
En la década de los 2020 se han presentado una serie de conflictos bélicos que han desestabilizado regiones enteras, planteando un desafío extraordinario al orden internacional. Entre los conflictos más destacados se encuentra la invasión rusa a Ucrania en 2022 y la guerra del actual Gobierno israelí contra la organización militante palestina Hamas en Gaza. En este artículo analizo esta clase de conflictos desde una perspectiva de la geografía po…
From ‘Territorial Peace’ to ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia
This forum discusses the concept of 'total peace' (paz total) and the notion of 'peace regions' (regiones de paz) recently coined by the government of Colombia to advance in the implementation of the Peace Accords signed back in 2016 with the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces FARC. Broadly drawing on a radical and critical geopolitics perspective, the forum's contributions offer a set of interpretations, exploring a wide range of diffe…
Towards a new “Black political” in Colombia
Examinando los debates sobre el neoextractivismo en Latinoamérica
The global commodity price boom at the beginning of the 21st century led to a significant increase of foreign direct investment in Latin America, particularly in large-scale mining operations. A body of critical literature has since emerged around the concept of “neo[1]extractivism” that has examined this new extractive phase of natural resources in this world region. In this paper we critically examine the theoretical debates of the neo[1]extrac…
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict
Dividing a City
Miami is not a newcomer to the history of gentrification that has reshaped the urban fabric in cities all over the world. Yet a new mega project to be implemented in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood represents a strategic capitalist modification of the city's previous processes of class-based and racialized socio-territorial dispossession and displacement. As we argue in this paper, Little Haiti's Magic City Innovation District stands emblematic…
Greta's Wrath; or 'quédate en casa', Agamben
This essay examines the usefulness (or not) of Agamben's notion of the state of exception as a framework for understanding the drastic changes to social life brought on by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It also considers a number of alternative interpretations - of metaphysical or divine inspiration. COVID-19 has brought on much confusion, and this essay might or might not contribute to dissipating some of it. As always, it's best to wash our …
Colombia's Other Dangerous Crop
An idiosyncratic, literary-minded anthropologist returns to Colombia to observe the effects of the palm oil boom on a rural village under the shadow of paramilitary violence
Geographies of the Pluriverse
Recent debates in decolonial thinking have engaged the notion of the pluriverse to question the concept of universality at the heart of Western epistemology and hermeneutics that has historically underpinned processes of colonial domination and exploitation. These entanglements are often of a conflictual nature, in that different ways of being in the world are intricately linked through the colonial matrix of power, leading to what has been terme…
Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia’s Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse
“Territorial Peace”
The essays collected in this forum discuss the political geography of the recent Colombian Peace Agreements, which aim to put an end to one of the most long lasting armed conflicts in Latin America. Central to many arguments in this accord is the concept of “territorial peace”. From a range of different academic disciplines and perspectives, the authors of this Forum explore this concept, focusing on its genealogy during the period of peace negot…
Voces desde la marginalidad acuática
Ontología relacional y cartografía social
Recent debates in assemblage thinking in the social sciences have stressed the notion of “relational ontologies” to conceptualize the complex interactions between humans and non-humans. In this article I examine the role of cartography in the politicization of relational ontologies, and in particular the potential of what has been termed “social cartography” in Colombia, which pretends to be a tool for challenging dominant cartographic representa…
The banality of displacement
Global assemblages, resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene
In this paper, we argue that the Anthropocene is an epoch characterized not only by the anthropogenic dominance of the Earth's ecosystems but also by new forms of environmental governance and institutions. Echoing the literature in political ecology, we call these new forms of environmental governance “global assemblages”. Socioecological changes associated with global assemblages disproportionately impact poorer nations and communities along the…
De fracaso y frustración en el trabajo de campo
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Linked Labor Histories
Disappearing World
Disappearing World: Television and Anthropologyby Andre Singer and Leslie Woodhead 1988. Boxtree. London
Territories of Difference
Indigenous Theories, Anthropological Ideas
Indigenous Theories, Anthropological Ideas: A View from Lowland South America David Maybury-Lewis Prologue This paper discusses certain themes in the social and cultural anthropology of the indigenous peoples of South America. Although I refer to the historical record in tracing and situating the emergence of these themes, the essay cannot and does not deal comprehensively with the history of lowland South American ethnography, nor does it attemp…
Another History of Violence
A conceptual framework of "geographies of terror" can serve as a critique of contemporary dominant geopolitical discourses on the "war on terror" and as a methodological tool for studying the impact of terror and its spatial manifestations on local populations on the ground. Applying this framework to the study of violence in Colombia's Pacific coast region allows critical engagement with the discourses on "forced displacement" that have become i…
Turf Wars
Revisiting the Hidden Transcript
The role of oral traditions in the reconstruction and the politicisation of collective memory has widely been recognised in post-colonial theories. Yet, the concrete application of these oral traditions by subaltern groups in projects of cultural politics has often been an ambiguous and discontinuous process. Moreover, poststructural interventions on cultural politics in social movement research, while theorising culture as a collective and dynam…
Violence, fear, and development in Latin America
This introduction presents the core concepts that shape this special issue on the impact of violence and the processes of development in Central and South America. The understanding of development is considered in terms broader than the economic context alone, in order to assess wider social and political aspects. With a similarly expansive scope, forms of violence are addressed that range from direct physical harm and bodily attack to the often …
Another History of Violence
A conceptual framework of "geographies of terror" can serve as a critique of contemporary dominant geopolitical discourses on the "war on terror" and as a methodological tool for studying the impact of terror and its spatial manifestations on local populations on the ground. Applying this framework to the study of violence in Colombia's Pacific coast region allows critical engagement with the discourses on "forced displacement" that have become i…
Fleshing out the geographies of social movements
Violence in development
A progressive piece of legislation in 1993 granted collective land rights to Colombia's black communities living in the rural areas of the Pacific coast region. This measure aimed partly to support sustainable development strategies in the region through territorial empowering of local communities. Yet 14 years later, the escalation of the country's internal conflict into the Pacific region has created unprecedented levels of forced displacement …
Parallel Descent and the Apinayé Anomaly
Discursos ocultos de resistencia
El texto presenta una muestra de la literatura oral de poblaciones afrocolombianas, incluyendo coplas y versos inéditos recogidos por el autor en Guapi, en la costa caucana del Pacífico. Se resalta la importancia de los ancianos, sabios y decimeros en los procesos actuales de re-construcción de memoria colectiva en el Pacífico, y cómo sus narrativas revelan un sentido de lugar que habla de patrones históricos de asentamiento, migraciones y viajes…
The banality of displacement
Einfach sprachlos but not simply speechless
Based on the authors’ experiences as German‐language speakers working at different stages of their careers within Anglo‐American human geography, this article reflects on the workings of (foreign) language, not only through academic publications but more widely in research contexts and everyday work. This is done by three personal observations, highlighting the relevance of (foreign) language interactions in terms of research practice as well as …
Revisiting the Hidden Transcript
The role of oral traditions in the reconstruction and the politicisation of collective memory has widely been recognised in post-colonial theories. Yet, the concrete application of these oral traditions by subaltern groups in projects of cultural politics has often been an ambiguous and discontinuous process. Moreover, poststructural interventions on cultural politics in social movement research, while theorising culture as a collective and dynam…
Inquest on the Murngin
Violence, fear, and development in Latin America
This introduction presents the core concepts that shape this special issue on the impact of violence and the processes of development in Central and South America. The understanding of development is considered in terms broader than the economic context alone, in order to assess wider social and political aspects. With a similarly expansive scope, forms of violence are addressed that range from direct physical harm and bodily attack to the often …
Dialectical Societies (Review Article)
Indigenous Theories, Anthropological Ideas
Indigenous Theories, Anthropological Ideas: A View from Lowland South America David Maybury-Lewis Prologue This paper discusses certain themes in the social and cultural anthropology of the indigenous peoples of South America. Although I refer to the historical record in tracing and situating the emergence of these themes, the essay cannot and does not deal comprehensively with the history of lowland South American ethnography, nor does it attemp…
Greta's Wrath; or 'quédate en casa', Agamben
This essay examines the usefulness (or not) of Agamben's notion of the state of exception as a framework for understanding the drastic changes to social life brought on by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It also considers a number of alternative interpretations - of metaphysical or divine inspiration. COVID-19 has brought on much confusion, and this essay might or might not contribute to dissipating some of it. As always, it's best to wash our …
Construyendo contrapoderes a las nuevas guerras geo-económicas
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
A antropologia numa era de confusão
A Antropologia sempre procurou entender a natureza humana e as variedades da cultura humana. Esta tarefa ambiciosa enfrentou constantemente dificuldades teóricas e metodológicas. A teoria da evolução social foi apresentada como sendo preconceituosa e baseada em poucas evidências, inclusive com uma inferência racista em uma época de dominação européia. Os antídotos - rigoroso trabalho de campo inspirado no funcionalismo, estruturalismo ou cultural…
Akwẽ-Shavante Society
Akwe-Shavante Society
Parallel Descent and the Apinayé Anomaly
Durkheim on Relationship Systems
This article examines Émile Durkheim's analysis of relationship systems, particularly his distinction between mechanical and organic solidarity. Maybury-Lewis argues that Durkheim's framework, while insightful, overlooks the complexities of relationships in non-Western societies. He uses ethnographic examples to illustrate how kinship and other social structures can create forms of solidarity that defy Durkheim's binary categorization. The articl…
The Savage and the Innocent
Akwe-Shavante Society
Inquest on the Murngin
Crucifixion by Power. Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944-1966
Crucifixion by Power. Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944-1966
Akwẽ-Shavante Society
Conclusion
Dialectical Societies
The Gê-speaking tribes of Central Brazil have always been an anomaly in the annals of anthropology; their exceedingly simple technology contrasts sharply with their highly complex sociological and ideological traditions. Dialectical Societies , the outgrowth of extended anthropological research organized by David Maybury-Lewis, at long last demystifies Gê social structure while modifying and reinterpreting some of the traditional ideas held about…
Dialectical Societies (Review Article)
Red Gold
Amazon Frontier
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
The Maasai of Matapato
The Attraction of Opposites
From Time Immemorial
Lowland Peoples of the Twentieth Century
The indigenous peoples of lowland South America have until recently been marginal to the history of the continent. This chapter deals with the indigenous peoples of the three major lowland nations of Amazonian South America, such as Venezuela, Brazil, and Paraguay, and then with the lowland peoples of the Andean nations, such as Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Venezuela contains the northernmost spur of the Andes and is sometimes considered…
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
This volume, part of the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistical…
"The Logic of the River"
Este artículo sostiene que planteamientos espaciales no han recibido suficiente atención en las teorías establecidas sobre movimientos sociales y la constructión de identidades. A partir de la Constitución de 1991, la movilización entre comunidades negras en la región de la costa Pacífica colombiana ha tendido hacia formas de organizaciones étnico‐territoriales que defienden sus derechos a una diferencia cultural como intrínsicamente vinculados a…
"The Logic of the River"
A antropologia numa era de confusão
A Antropologia sempre procurou entender a natureza humana e as variedades da cultura humana. Esta tarefa ambiciosa enfrentou constantemente dificuldades teóricas e metodológicas. A teoria da evolução social foi apresentada como sendo preconceituosa e baseada em poucas evidências, inclusive com uma inferência racista em uma época de dominação européia. Os antídotos - rigoroso trabalho de campo inspirado no funcionalismo, estruturalismo ou cultural…
The Politics of Ethnicity
Reseña escrita por Ulrich Oslender
Discursos ocultos de resistencia
El texto presenta una muestra de la literatura oral de poblaciones afrocolombianas, incluyendo coplas y versos inéditos recogidos por el autor en Guapi, en la costa caucana del Pacífico. Se resalta la importancia de los ancianos, sabios y decimeros en los procesos actuales de re-construcción de memoria colectiva en el Pacífico, y cómo sus narrativas revelan un sentido de lugar que habla de patrones históricos de asentamiento, migraciones y viajes…
Fleshing out the geographies of social movements
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