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The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood PDF

288 Pages·2013·1.26 MB·English
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Native peoples of the Amazon view objects, especially human artifacts, as the first cosmic creations and the building blocks from which the natural world has been shaped. In these constructional cosmologies, spears became the stings of wasps, hammocks became spiderwebs, stools became the buttocks of
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