They're here—I can feel them: the epistemic spaces of Indigenous and Western Knowledges

摘要: Indigenous Knowledges (IK) are continually contrasted with Western positivist sciences. Yet the usual conception of IK—as a translatable knowledge about things—renders incomprehensible its discussion as spiritual or ethical practice. A practice taking place within what we call an epistemic space. moose hunting event can demonstrate how IK is produced through spaces which performed. Part performance becoming-animal; practiced by Koyukon Athabascans, hunt reproduces social relations between hunter and prey, that ontology ethics seemingly distinct from those wildlife sciences founded upon Enlightenment humanism. such ‘Western–Indigenous’ dichotomies falsely indicate entirely separable to produce accounts reality. Instead, this account demonstrates assemblage actors one space, who together become more than authors' individual positions a...