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- Title
Looking Like the Land: Beauty and Aesthetics in Amazonian Quichua Philosophy and Practice.
- Authors
Swanson, Tod D.; Reddekop, Jarrad
- Abstract
This article offers an account of Quichua thinking about beauty in the Ecuadorian Amazon: how it is grounded in a philosophical tradition that conceives the world and the self in "perspectivist" and relational terms, and how experiences of beauty play specific roles and attain a particular kind of sense within that context. In particular, we show how indigenous Quichua ideas about beauty inform a range of everyday practices and are intimately connected to distinct ideas about what it means to live a good or mature life. This maturity involves cultivating the self as a body shared with the land, taking on its styles, and responding empathetically to it. But it also means leaving space for others, respecting the boundaries of privacy that emerge through the differentiation of species and the formation of distinct aesthetic communities within particular territories.
- Subjects
QUECHUA (South American people); PHILOSOPHY; AESTHETICS; THOUGHT &; thinking; PRIVACY
- Publication
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2017, Vol 85, Issue 3, p682
- ISSN
0002-7189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jaarel/lfw086