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The Yukpa from Sokorhpa in Northwestern Colombia converse with animals, the dead, and deities. Moving beyond influential theories on more-than-human relations from Amazonian anthropology, Anne Goletz introduces the concept of ›common ground‹ to examine a range of distinct communicative strategies. Drawing on detailed analysis of communication situations and narratives, she provides insights into present-day social dynamics in the Serranía del Perijá highlands, and relates the Cariban-speaking Yukpa to the emerging socio-cosmological framework of the Isthmo-Colombian Area. This ethnography thus offers an insightful conceptual perspective on communication beyond the human.
Price: $67.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
30 June 2026
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837677799
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
NATURE / Animal Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
Anne Goletz (PhD), born in 1987, is a social and cultural anthropologist at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her research focuses on local conceptions and representations of knowledge, particularly ontologies, narratives, and systems of communication, as well as human-environment relations. Her work centers on the Amazonian and Isthmo-Colombian regions, with a particular emphasis on Colombia. In her research, she combines ethnographic and linguistic methods and employs participatory and collaborative approaches.