Shamanic Thinking in the Capitalocene

An Attempt to Build Alliances at the End of the World

Authors

  • Giacomo Otavio Tixiliski International Relations at the Federal University of Bahia (PPGRI/UFBA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2025.1330

Keywords:

World-Ecology, Shamanic Thought, Capitalocene, The Falling Sky

Abstract

The paper interweaves the concepts of two contemporary thinkers in order to describe the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. Based on the books Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore (2015) and The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert (2013, 2015), I identify the common, or at least approximate, meanings between these two works. To do this, I have structured the article based on the discursive textual analysis. The first section analyzes the concepts of “oikeios” by Moore (2015) and “urihi a” by Kopenawa and Albert (2013, 2015). The second section interprets the descriptions of the processes of disorganization of nature. In the concluding section, the main results and future directions are outlined. The article demonstrates the possibility of building a confluent perspective between divergent ones.

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2025-04-17

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Tixiliski, G. O. (2025). Shamanic Thinking in the Capitalocene: An Attempt to Build Alliances at the End of the World . Journal of World-Systems Research, 31(1), 181–195. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2025.1330

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Vol. 31 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue on Global Disasters and World Society

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Global Disasters and World Society

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