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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Johnson.

Modern kichwa-speaking Runa peoples inhabit much of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon. Ethnographic study focusing on Runa communities of both the Pastaza and Napo Rivers indicate these groups share many of the views, collectively known as Amazonian Perspectivism, that characterize numerous lowland cultural groups. This paper will detail some of the ways in which Runa persons perceive and interact with their environment, focusing on relations with socially salient plants and animals thought to be persons,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gavin Lucas.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The workshop seeks to explore the myriad ways in which things become undone. In the last two years, human worlds have experienced a series of ruptures from climate-related disasters, migration, political violence, and, above all, the Covid-19 pandemic. Doesn’t this mean we also need a theory of undoing? Or a theory of how things fall apart? Although there has been a lot of attention devoted to the productive...