Ecologías nómadas: las plantas, conocimiento incorporado y temporalidad en la Amazonia colombiana

Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio

doi:10.17533/udea.boan.v32n53a14

Authors

Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio Duke University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.v32n53a14

Keywords:

mambia, agency of plants, other-than-human temporalities, decoloniality, Colombian Amazon

Abstract

A non-anthropocentric approach to human and other-than-human relations in the (Quech. kuka; Lat. Erythroxylon coca) with a Murui indigenous elder. It describes how plants and humans co-create place-based knowledge, ecologies, and territories. The article also tackles some aspects of Amazonian socio-ecological life beyond teleological notions of time, change, and history. A conversation on plant-human relations, it suggests that questions of corporality, ingestion, and tactility, among others, might be of interest to decolonial theory. Colombian Amazon, this paper follows plant-human encounters in the context of the ritual use of coca.

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Author Biography

Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio, Duke University

PhD Student, Department of Romance Studies–Latin American Studies.

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