Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. For researchers in phenomenology, environmental philosophy, environmental anthropology, religious studies.

Autorentext

Luz Gonçalves Brito holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/UFRGS, Brazil. She is committed to environmental humanities, phenomenology and intersectionality. Her current research interests include political ecology, gender, race and mental health.

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Foreword by Tim Ingold Prelude 1. Exploring a fractal labyrinth Interregno: on ontological insecurity in Porto Alegre caused by the fossil fuels crisis, which resembled an Armageddon 2. The way of the Muriqui-Assu Interlude: sociality of the chickens 3. Gaudya Vaishnavismo in Serra da Bocaina (Rio de Janeiro) 4. Gaudya Vaishnavismo in Serra da Mantiqueira (Baependi-MG) Denouement: breaking through the social membrane