Cosmologies and Cosmovisions in South America

ALTMAN, AGUSTINA; LÓPEZ, ALEJANDRO MARTÍN; MOYANO, RICARDO

A Cultural History of the Universe in the Modern Age

Bloomsbury Press

Año: 2021;

This work is an attempt to introduce a comparison of the deep logics articulating cosmovisions and cosmologies among indigenous groups in South America. We are particularly interested in describing the current state and recent past of these knowledge systems but connecting them to the distant past. We seek to leave aside an anecdotic comparative approach focused on isolated elements. It is not our intention either to build conjectural narratives of the links among these ways of conceiving the world. Instead, we wish to focus on analysing the common underlying logics that account for the organising principles of these cosmovisions and cosmologies related to their relational and political nature.