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Plant temporalities: Life cycles, maturation and death in an Amerindian ethnography

This article considers how relations with certain plants produce multiple temporalities for the Wajãpi, an Amerindian people from the Brazilian Amazon. Inspired by a non-anthropocentric anthropology or an “anthropology beyond the human,” the article is an ethnographic exploration about how the Wajãp...

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Main Author:	Cabral de Oliveira, Joana
Format:	Online
Language:	Portuguese
Published:	Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2022
Subjects:	Maturation Temporality Amazonian ethnology Plants Maturação Temporalidade Etnologia Amazônica Plantas Maduración Temporalidad Etnología Amazonica
Online Access:	https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/maloca/article/view/16092
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