The spear as measure

Rage, revenge spear-killing and the transformation of indigenous citizenship in Ecuador

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ID18964660
AuthorsStine Krøijer (0000-0002-9847-1745, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue1
Pages78-92
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2020.1817003
OpenAlexW3088585103
LanguageEN
References cited13

This article takes its ethnographic point of departure revenge killing among the Huaorani and Tagaeri-Taromenane (a group in voluntary isolation) living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It describes an accelerating inter-household conflict, and especially its relation to a heated public debate, fuelling the proliferation of the initial conflict. By thinking with a cultural artefact, the spear, the article shows how the public debate became characterized by competing sense-making projects that scaled revenge killing differently. As an effect, the process entailed a change of change (escalation) occasioned by the intersection of competing, but incomensurable scales. This ended up transforming the relation between the Huaorani and State

Archaeology · Citizenship · Criminology · Cultural conflict · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spear · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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