Indigenous Cosmology
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The Long Way Home
In “The Long Way Home,” Esmeralda, a Mexican American girl in Tucson, defies her mother’s warnings…
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Entre abrazo y captura: el serpenteo del saber amazónico en las secuencias de caapi de El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) de Ciro Guerra
This essay examines how El abrazo de la serpiente stages the transmission of Amazonian knowledge through…
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The Virgin Ceiba
Set in sixteenth-century Castile and New Spain, The Virgin Ceiba traces the mystical trajectory of Sor…
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Sprouting Words
This paper examines how contemporary Maya poets Humberto Ak’abal, Briceida Cuevas Cob, and Ruperta Bautista Vázquez…
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“¡Como tú, río Pachachaca!”
This paper (written in Spanish) analyzes Los ríos profundos through the Andean concept of pacha as…
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Pulmones de follaje, suspiro de bruma: respiro con el bosque
Written in Spanish, Pulmones de follaje, suspiro de bruma is a poetic meditation on a solitary…
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Spindles of the Sacred
This interdisciplinary paper converges linguistics, religious anthropology, metaphysics, and ontology to explore Mexica (Aztec) metaphysics, cosmology,…
Ava Linda Feliz-Sutter 