Amazonia as a place, a subject, a point of view, and a
socio-ecological world.
Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its
peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and
immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to
past and present forms of resistance. In all their various lines (and
circles) of ecological and epistemological thought, the artists, elders,
writers, theorists, shamans, curators, poets, and activists whose ideas,
images, and struggles compose this book, are concerned with Amazonia as
both a place and a point of view. Through the weaving of voices, myths,
ancestors, and territories, and all their radical subjectivities, we
understand language in this anthology in an extended sense: as
testimony, textile, painting, river, forest, animal, ancestor, song,
spirit, and sacred medicine. Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology
inquires into decolonial feminisms and Indigenous temporalities,
externalized memory and erasure, sacred plants in the shadow of pandemic
corporate-state extractivism and systemic violence, the activist
possibilities of the mythic imagination, and the common visual matrices
of the Amazonian universe. The book also weighs the Western imaginary of
the Amazon, both its colonial roots in racial capitalism and its
corporate, technological, paternalistic present. Centered, however, is
Amazonia itself, in all its many and numinous worlds and
languages--visual, oral, botanical, ancestral, cosmological--by which it
becomes narrated, passed on, and then narrated again.
Contributors
Maria Thereza Alves, Christian Bendayan, Rita Carelli, Felipe
Castelblanco, Carolina Caycedo, Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, Tiffany
Higgins, Márcia Wayna Kambeba, knowbotique, Davi Kopenawa, Ailton
Krenak, Renata Machado, Maurício Meirelles, Harry Pinedo, Aníbal
Quijano, Djamila Ribeiro, Pamela Rosenkranz, Abel Rodríguez, Maria Belén
Saéz de Ibarra, Barbara Santos, Paulo Tavares, Daiara Tukano, Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro