No. 3 (2017): Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences

This volume is dedicated to Polish anthropological research in the Amazon and honours Professor Aleksander Posern-Zieliński, a pioneer of Polish Amazonian studies. The volume highlights his contributions to Polish anthropology and ethnology, as well as the continuation of his work by subsequent generations of Polish researchers. 

Topics focus on the analysis of social relations, cosmologies and cultural transformations within indigenous communities. Discussions include relationship-building processes from the perspective of Amazonian Indians, cultural differences between the Wari' and Moré communities, ethnobotanical practices among the Asháninka Indians, and funeral rituals among the Guajiro Indians. 

The issue includes the Polish translation of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's most important text, Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, originally published in 1998 in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4(3), pp. 469-488.

Key words: relation, parasitism, kinship, ethnographic theory, Western Amazonia, Amazonia, animism,perspectivism, anthropology of nature, acquisition and transmission of representations, Matsigenka, Amazon,Peru, religious missions, indigenous cosmologies., Arawak linguistic family, ethnomedicine, free listing, Guajiro,Wayuu, funerary rituals, wake ceremony, Wayuu woman, dreams., comparison, historical anthropology, identity,shamanism, Ecuador, Quechua, indigenous worldview, Amerindians, ontology, Amazonian cosmologies,archaeology, ethnohistory, environmental studies, pottery, iconography, Social conflict, Bora, gente del centro,cultural mechanisms of conflict resolution, méémeba, the Peruvian Amazon, cultural appropriation, folkorism, folk culture., Tim Ingold, organism, perception, environment, education, meshwork, correspondence