Nomadic Ecologies
Plants, embodied knowledge, and temporality in the Colombian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11149092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio (Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 53 |
| Pages | 255-276 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Boletín de Antropología (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0120-2510 • E-ISSN: 2390-027X |
| Publisher | Universidad de Antioquia (PUBLISHER • CO) |
| DOI | 10.17533/udea.boan.v32n53a14 |
| OpenAlex | W2597613447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
A non-anthropocentric approach to human and other-than-human relations in the (Quech. kuka; Lat. Erythroxylon coca) with a Murui indigenous elder. It describes how plants and humans co-create place-based knowledge, ecologies, and territories. The article also tackles some aspects of Amazonian socio-ecological life beyond teleological notions of time, change, and history. A conversation on plant-human relations, it suggests that questions of corporality, ingestion, and tactility, among others, might be of interest to decolonial theory. Colombian Amazon, this paper follows plant-human encounters in the context of the ritual use of coca
Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Cartography · Coca · Epistemology · Geography · Humanities · Temporality · Ecology · Indigenous Cultures and History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |