202557(en)/41 - Uywaña. On Nurturing and Being Nurtured: Tensions and Multiple Correspondences

This article offers a critical review of the notions of “upbringing” or uywaña, explored in diverse ethnographic studies from the Andean region, focusing on the everyday and ritual forms of coexistence observed among several Aymara families in the Region of Arica and Parinacota (Chile). These forms of coexistence are understood as practices that recreate and revitalize convivial relations between people and living environments, which unfold amid the eco-cultural inflections and fractures shaped by their participation in national Andean formations, as well as the ecological transformations caused by climate change. Following Tim Ingold’s (2022) invitation to “let ourselves be educated” by Aymara families, we propose an anthropology that, although emerging from fragile and asymmetric interactions, conceives mutual upbringing as a web of human and more-than-human correspondences. These correspondences serve as pathways for to thinking—and imagining—the reproduction of life in times of tension and crisis.

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