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Guest lecture: Marisol de la Cadena

She will speak about “Not Knowing, In the Presence of...”

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Marisol de la Cadena
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Marisol de la Cadena is Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. Located at the interface between STS and non-STS, and working through what she calls “ontological openings”, her interests include the study of politics, multispecies (or multi-entities), indigeneity, history and the a-historical, world anthropologies and the anthropologies of worlds. In all these areas her concern is the relationship between concepts and methods, and interfaces as analytical sites. More prosaically, she is interested in ethnographic concepts – those that blur the distinction between theory and the empirical because they are not without the latter.

She is the author of several books, among them Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds (Duke UP 2015) and (as co-editor with Mario Blaser) A World of Many Worlds (Duke UP 2018), as well as numerous essays, for example “The Uncommons” in Anthropologica 59, 2, “Earth-Beings: Andean Indigenous Religion but Not Only” in The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds (Routledge 2018), and “Stengers Meets an Andean Mountain that Is Not Only Such” in Philosophy on Fieldwork (Routledge 2022).

The working title of her latest research project is “Making Cow”. She is also a collaborating member of the GOVMAT project. For more about de la Cadena’s research, see https://www.marisoldelacadena.com/bio

The lecture is organized by the GOVMAT project (The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions, funded by the Research Council of Norway, FRIPRO), in collaboration with the research group for Minority Studies, hosted by the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR).