The spear as measure: Rage, revenge spear-killing and the transformation of indigenous citizenship in Ecuador
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The spear as measure : Rage, revenge spear-killing and the transformation of indigenous citizenship in Ecuador. / Krøijer, Stine.
In: History and Anthropology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2021, p. 78-92.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The spear as measure
T2 - Rage, revenge spear-killing and the transformation of indigenous citizenship in Ecuador
AU - Krøijer, Stine
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Amazonia
KW - revenge
KW - killing
KW - escalation
KW - citizenship
U2 - 10.1080/02757206.2020.1817003
DO - 10.1080/02757206.2020.1817003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 78
EP - 92
JO - History and Anthropology
JF - History and Anthropology
SN - 0275-7206
IS - 1
ER -
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