Epistemologies of Resistance: Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon
Epistemologies of resistance are knowledge frameworks that challenge oppressive structures and the ideologies that sustain them. In this paper, I analyze three weeks of ethnographic eldwork among the Asháninka of the Peruvian Amazon to demonstrate the ways in which the epistemologies that I encounte...
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| description | Epistemologies of resistance are knowledge frameworks that challenge oppressive structures and the ideologies that sustain them. In this paper, I analyze three weeks of ethnographic eldwork among the Asháninka of the Peruvian Amazon to demonstrate the ways in which the epistemologies that I encountered challenge oppressive structures and their underlying ideologies. My ndings consider the use of social and environmental context as epistemic indicators. I contrast these context-dependent epistemologies with the context-independent epistemologies that dominate contemporary “Western” thought, where the goal is to separate knowledge from context. I then consider how, as hybrid epistemologies that have emerged out of interaction and exchange in a globalized world, indigenous knowledge frameworks resist the notion of a binary di erence between indigenous and “Western” itself. These epistemologies of resistance critique the double binds created and sustained through the colonial model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3305c926ea874b18bdcf63179aa7e10d2022-12-21T21:32:33ZengDalhousie University LibrariesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography2369-87212020-10-01102385610.15273/jue.v10i2.103529531Epistemologies of Resistance: Knowledge in the Peruvian AmazonLorena Reinert0Messiah CollegeEpistemologies of resistance are knowledge frameworks that challenge oppressive structures and the ideologies that sustain them. In this paper, I analyze three weeks of ethnographic eldwork among the Asháninka of the Peruvian Amazon to demonstrate the ways in which the epistemologies that I encountered challenge oppressive structures and their underlying ideologies. My ndings consider the use of social and environmental context as epistemic indicators. I contrast these context-dependent epistemologies with the context-independent epistemologies that dominate contemporary “Western” thought, where the goal is to separate knowledge from context. I then consider how, as hybrid epistemologies that have emerged out of interaction and exchange in a globalized world, indigenous knowledge frameworks resist the notion of a binary di erence between indigenous and “Western” itself. These epistemologies of resistance critique the double binds created and sustained through the colonial model.https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/10352indigenous epistemologydecolonial theoryhybriditycultural changeamazonian ethnography |
| spellingShingle | Lorena Reinert Epistemologies of Resistance: Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography indigenous epistemology decolonial theory hybridity cultural change amazonian ethnography |
| title | Epistemologies of Resistance: Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon |
| title_full | Epistemologies of Resistance: Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon |
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| title_short | Epistemologies of Resistance: Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon |
| title_sort | epistemologies of resistance knowledge in the peruvian amazon |
| topic | indigenous epistemology decolonial theory hybridity cultural change amazonian ethnography |
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