Familias-más-que-humanas: sobre las relaciones humanos/no-humanos y las posibilidades de una etnografía inter-especies en Colombia

The essay aims to explore the possibilities of an inter-species ethnography that allows us to question the dominant forms of thought that separate "nature" from "culture". This work seeks to position the concept of "human-natural networks" suggested by Escobar in one of his works associated with the ontological turn in anthropology (Escobar, 2015, Sánchez-Maldonado, 2017a; 2017b). Also reflecting on the "multi" and the "inter" discussions, Kirskey & Helmreich's (2010) multi-species notions of ethnography are put on the table. It is pointed out that beyond the discussion on which of the two terms should be used, both correspond to two closely linked research moments: the "multi" has a panoramic effect to identify anthropological problems that evidence the links that humans establish with Multiple forms of life beyond what we come to realize, while "inter" refers to the focus on our potential ethnographies and the emphasis on inter-species relationships that give meaning to the notion of human-natural frameworks. Finally, the notion of "families-more-than-human" is proposed as a first movement to address the possibilities of this type of research.