7. Cosmo-Logics in Contemporary Lowland South America
From the Ground to the Sky - Ten Years of Skyscape Archaeology - Fabio Silva
Alejandro Martín López
Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas
Augustina Altman
CONICET, Argentina
Description
This chapter highlights the articulation of cosmovisions and cosmologies among indigenous groups as an important branch of anthropology that any skyscape archaeologist should be interested in, as they may teach us about non-modern, non-western ways of relating to and conceiving the world around a given society. Alejandro M. López and Agustina Altman step away from the anecdotal comparative approaches of the past and, instead, seek to identify and understand commonalities in the systems of logical thinking that underlie such cosmologies. They do this by focusing on lowland South American groups, especially from Argentina.