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Equivocation, Partial Connections and Radical Difference

Marisol de la Cadena’s Earth Beings is a wonderfully eye-opening ethnography. I learned about Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s term “equivocation”, what being partially connected might mean, and how to do difference radically. These concepts seem really important for anyone doing qualitative or ethnographic research or thinking with identity politics. I will use these concepts in other posts, so I wanted to describe them here.

“[an equivocation is] a failure to understand that understandings are necessarily not the same, and that they are not related to imaginary ways of ‘seeing the world’ but to the real worlds that are being seen” -- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2004)

“As a mode of communication, equivocations emerge when different perspectival positions -- views from different worlds, rather than perspectives about the same world -- use the same word to refer to things that are not the same.” -- Marisol de la Cadena (2015, 110)

“On things that are partially connected, John Law writes: ‘The argument is that ‘this’ (whatever ‘this’ may be) is included in ‘that’, but ‘this’ cannot be reduced to ‘that’’... To paraphrase: my world was included in the world that my friends inhabited and vice versa, but their world could not be reduced to mine, or mine to theirs... And rather than maintaining the separation that the difference caused, we chose to explore the difference together.” -- Marisol de la Cadena (4).

“I learned to identify radical difference as a relation... the condition between us that made us aware of our mutual understandings but did not fully inform us about ‘the stuff’ that composed those misunderstandings...” -- Marisol de la Cadena (63).

“Difference that is radical-- or what the “self” cannot recognize or know without serious runakuna intermediation...” --Marisol de la Cadena (100).

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de la Cadena, Marisol (2015). Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press.

Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (2004). Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation”. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2(1), Article 1.

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Ok #cardslingersofinstagram !!! What a celebration today! So many cool things up ahead! Let's keep happy as much as we can , so we can help others out there! There have been times where my husband and I would be at a grocery store and see people get angry with us or others & Dave & I would bring them to understand, there was no need to get so angry that they react where it effects all of us in the store. We need to be the example don't we? It's starts with the I , the AM to the WE . If the I is not HAPPY WITHIN, the energy of your spirit is in a negative place which then is transferred to everyone else you are surrounded by. Those of us with a bright #aura will reflect and #earthbeings will feel it. This is why this #tarot practice is so beneficial, it's the best check in you could have with your #consciousness and #mentalwellbeing . #turnttarotspread #kundaliniawakening #cardslinger #cardslingers #selfconscious #theconsciousmind #awakening #selfhealing #meditation https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPeaUHBqWV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z9u2scqzalea

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[djjfell]

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