East Asian, Euro-American, and Amazonian indigenous ways of art, thinking, and relationship to nature : a philosophical trialogue

Carvalho, José Jorge de (author)

This article offers an exercise in (trans)intercultural and (post)comparative philosophy by putting into dialogue, probably for the first time, two different philosophical perspec­tives: East Asian, especially Chinese and Japanese; and Brazilian Amazonian Indige­nous, especially from the Makuxi and Wapixana nations. My analysis is connected with the approaches I am developing in various editions of the International Colloquia of East Asian Philosophy, held annually at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) since 2008. I will illustrate this intercultural dialogue by offering a cross-philosophical reading of an extraordinarily crafted and unique straw basket named darruana, as representative of the typically Latin American Indigenous philosophical perspective expressed in art, technol­ogy, cosmology, and relationship to nature, being compared to the philosophies of art and nature formulated by Kitarō Nishida, Dōgen Zenji, Laozi, and Zhuangzi, among others. I will also argue for the inclusion of Latin American Indigenous and Afro-Diasporic philosophies in the wider scene of world philosophy, or better, philosophies of the world.

• Language: English
• Keywords: intercultural philosophy, Amazon Indigenous philosophical objects, meeting of knowledges, Daoism, philosophy of nature
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 77-103
• Numbering: Vol. 14, no. 2
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2026.14.2.77-103
• Publication date in RUL: 05.11.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian studies = Azijske študije
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-5131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 265206272

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vzhodnoazijski, evroameriški in amazonski staroselski pristopi k umetnosti, mišljenju in odnosu do narave : filozofski trialog

Abstract

Prispevek predstavlja vajo v (trans)interkulturni in (post)primerjalni filozofiji, in sicer tako, da vzpostavlja dialog, verjetno prvič, med dvema različnima filozofskima perspek­tivama: vzhodnoazijsko, zlasti kitajsko in japonsko, ter brazilsko amazonsko staroselsko, zlasti perspektivo ljudstev Makuxi in Wapixana. Moja analiza je povezana s pristopi, ki jih razvijam v različnih izdajah vsakoletnih Mednarodnih kolokvijev o vzhodnoazijski filozofiji, ki od leta 2008 dalje potekajo na Univerzi v Campinasu (Unicamp). Ta interkulturni dialog bom ponazoril z medfilozofskim branjem izjemno dovršene in edinstvene pletene slamnate košare z imenom darruana, ki predstavlja značilno latinskoameriško staroselsko filozofsko perspektivo, izraženo v umetnosti, tehnologiji, kozmologiji in od­nosu do narave, ter jo primerjal s filozofijami umetnosti in narave, ki so jih oblikovali Kitarō Nishida, Dōgen Zenji, Laozi, Zhuangzi in drugi. Zagovarjal bom tudi vključitev latinskoameriških staroselskih in afrodiasporičnih filozofij v širši prostor svetovne filo­zofije oziroma natančneje filozofij sveta.

• Keywords: interkulturna filozofija, amazonski staroselski filozofski predmeti, srečanje znanj, daoizem, filozofija narave