The spear as measure: Rage, revenge spear-killing and the transformation of indigenous citizenship in Ecuador
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This article takes its ethnographic point of departure revenge killing among the Huaorani and Tagaeri-Taromenane (a group in voluntary isolation) living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It describes an accelerating inter-household conflict, and especially its relation to a heated public debate, fuelling the proliferation of the initial conflict. By thinking with a cultural artefact, the spear, the article shows how the public debate became characterized by competing sense-making projects that scaled revenge killing differently. As an effect, the process entailed a change of change (escalation) occasioned by the intersection of competing, but incomensurable scales. This ended up transforming the relation between the Huaorani and State.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | History and Anthropology |
Vol/bind | 32 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 78-92 |
ISSN | 0275-7206 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2021 |
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