De Corpo e Alma

Abstract

The notions of "body" and "soul", within the dual universe of the Marubo from Southwestern Amazonia, intersect other contributions to this volume: firstly, in view of the present concern, from an universalizing perspective, on epistemological issues in Amazonia; and secondly, in view of a now ever-present relevance of indigenous ontology (here more as the "presentation", rather than the "investigation" or "account" of the origins of the cosmos and all forms of being therein) vis-à-vis the knowledge, with a particularizing tenure, of the performance of a cognitive ethos.