Neither Posthumanist nor Deconstructed: The Qom Shamanic Practices that Challenge Contemporary Modes of Existence = Ni Posthumanista ni Deconstruido: Prácticas Chamánicas Qom Que Desafían Los Modos Contemporáneos De Existencia
American Religion March 1, 2024 Florencia Tola
Abstract: Contemporary debates on posthumanism and the planetary environmental crisis have led to the questioning of the dichotomies and anthropocentrism of Western modernity. The Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco of Argentina, specifically the Qom or Toba, neither privileged the human above other beings that make up the world nor created nature/culture dichotomies. In other words they were,...