Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!)
Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!)
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2017
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Vanessa Watts
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Vanessa Watts
这篇文章将从土著的角度考察机构如何在人类和非人类世界中流通，以创造和维持社会。通过殖民进程，土著世界概念的基本类别(女性和土地)的腐败导致了这一机构在土著社会中的表现方式之间的脱节。通过对认识论-本体论的划分和本土的场所思维概念的比较，本文将论证机构错误地成为人类的专属，从而将非人类的机构从构成社会的东西中剔除。这在一定程度上是通过神话化土著起源的故事，并分离出人类与动物世界、天空世界、精神世界等之间的沟通、条约和历史协议。为了使殖民主义发挥作用，它必须试图让土著人民不相信他们自己和他们的历史。这篇文章试图重申地方、非人类和人类之间的这种神圣的联系，以努力接近“前殖民时代的心灵”。
This article will examine how agency is circulated through human and non-human worlds in the creation and maintenance of society from an Indigenous point of view. Through processes of colonization, the corruption of essential categories of Indigenous conceptions of the world (the feminine and land) has led to a disconnect between how this agency is manifested in Indigenous societies. Through a comparison between the epistemological-ontological divide and an Indigenous conception of Place-Thought, this article will argue that agency has erroneously become exclusive to humans, thereby removing non-human agency from what constitutes a society. This is accomplished in part by mythologizing Indigenous origin stories and separating out communication, treaty-making, and historical agreements that human beings held with the animal world, the sky world, the spirit world, etc. In order for colonialism to operationalize itself, it must attempt to make Indigenous peoples stand in disbelief of themselves and their histories. This article attempts to reaffirm this sacred connection between place, non-human and human in an effort to access the “pre-colonial mind”.