Abstract

FLORES, María Eugenia  and  ECHAZU BOSCHEMEIER, Ana Gretel. Ontologías en desigualdad: coca, ayahuasca y la agencia histórica. Avá [online]. 2016, n.29, pp.155-174. ISSN 1851-1694.

We propose a critical exercise of the “ontological turn” in anthropology, considering some political and epistemological problems observed on Amerindian Perspectivism. We place our theoretical reflection on ethnographic materials obtained during two different PhD research that took place in the Argentinian highlands and the Peruvian lowlands respectively. There, two plants with deep historical and cultural significance were studied: the coca (Erythroxylum coca) and the ayahuasca beverage (made by Banisteriopsis caapi, Psychotria viridis and other plants). We point out the visibilization of inequalities, taking into consideration the historical, political and cultural contexts where agency take place. Our proposal embraces a plural ontology that incorporates the agency of master plants embedded in the historical heritage of the communities that cultivate, prepare and assign them.

Keywords : Plural Ontologies; Decolonization; Master Plants; Ethnography.

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