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ROZO L, Bernardo. Humans and non-humans in the Chiquitania's woods. From "fear" towards a radical reflexivity. Textos Antropológicos [online]. 2019, vol.20, n.1, pp. 33-60. ISSN 1025-3181.

How dedicated can be an anthropological research, not only to achieve the comprehension ofcontexts with strong interaction between human and non-human, but also to be educated by them? Academic trainingplaces us in a very particular place for the construction ofknowledge: control, anticipated foreshadowing ofa research problem, the best possible objectification. This work exposes and analyzes a process that, contrary to what the manuals recommend, taught me how to deal with unplanned orforeshadowed events, little anticipated, much less desired. From a critique ofmy own research experience in the indigenous territory of Lomerío, and using dialogue and interaction with the inhabitants oftheseforests, I discuss relational means with theforest and, from there, reach a self-critical reflection on taking seriously not only what we are told in thefield about living with non-human entities, but also taking the body seriously as an inseparable entity ofthe soul. Proposing some criticism ofclassi-cal ethnography, including my own, I try to confirm that a greater sensory awareness, as the multisensory turn seems to propose, is not enough ifit is not calibrated by a consciousness about the body and its inseparable organic-animic condition. I propose, finally, that understanding non-human and multispecies agencies implies, therefore, a radical non-anthropocentric reflexivity. This may allow us to redefine whatforests really are, and thus assume their true complexity.

Palabras llave : Lomerio; forest owners; body-soul; ontological anthropologies; reflexivity.