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Human Discourse about Nature; Nature's Processes as Discourse: The Pre‐Columbian Peruvian Myth of Cavillaca
Author(s) -
Columbus Claudette Kemper
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.1998.9.2-3.17
Subject(s) - mythology , artifact (error) , sociology , non human , epistemology , aesthetics , environmental ethics , anthropology , history , philosophy , psychology , theology , neuroscience
When nature's energies communicate what human beings do not want to hear and when human beings experience the pressures of this communication as reality, they confront discursive practices from nature and in nature. The Peruvian myth of Cavillaca, although a cultural artifact, nevertheless expresses what human beings cannot change or mediate in nature; nature presents grades of reality larger than human constructions of the real.