Frontières cosmologiques : le multinaturalisme comme horizon décolonial

Abstract

Modern epistemology, in its way of producing knowledge, served as a theoretical basis for the division between nature and culture. Consequently, the concept of multiculturalism, the idea of a world surrounded by numerous representations, caused a power asymmetry that with the colonial past, has not only imposed the scientific representation as the truest, but also triggered asymmetrical power relations. Our goal here is to describe other epistemological relationships that are at the base of contemporary anthropology and that have their theoretical roots in ethnographic contact. We want to propose that this relationship with the Other, born from the crossing of ontological borders is not only a potential agent of change but also of the methods and issues raised in anthropology and philosophy today. Thus, we will make a brief analysis of multinaturalist perspectivism as presented in the book Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. We discuss his theory and his notion of equivocity in translation with the intention to present it as a possible tool for contemporary philosophical and anticolonial thinking.