Introduction -- The politics of "wilderness" : the nature/culture dualism revisited -- Economics and the making of "natural resources" -- Re-entangling the material and the discursive : quantum physics and agential realism -- The spirit of the gift in the Peruvian Andes : Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta -- Supersessionism and the teaching of agronomy in Peru -- Dancing with the mountain in the Altiplano : the festival of the Ispallas -- The state and feminist missionizing in Bolivia / with Loyda Sanchez -- Beyond absolute time and space : from representation to performativity in rituals -- Fair trade and the possibility of bio-cultural regeneration -- Epilogue : performing the lessons learned.
Summary
In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are 'eco-metaphysically true'.
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