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A Shamanic Historical Construction: The Cosmohistorical Potential of Reconnecting Territories in the Anthropocene

ABSTRACT

In addition to its climatic and environmental features, the Anthropocene is also a time characterized by an exhaustion of classical models of Western political imagination. This article presents an overview of the contemporary scholarship on the Anthropocene and the Human Sciences, and analyzes the potentialities of a cosmohistorical regime of historicity for producing historical narratives that are more centrifugal, multiple, and attentive to the silences imposed by Western modernity. In this sense, this article supports the argument that Cosmo History is capable not only of giving voice to other subjectivities, but also of incorporating non-anthropocentric epistemological principles into its methodological practice, configuring a symmetrical theory of history that recognizes an irreducible plurality of experiences of historicity as an active part of the production of knowledge.

Keywords:
Anthropocene; Cosmo History; Cosmo Politics; Indigenous Epistemologies; Shamanic Knowledge

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