Reflections on Indigenous Cosmopolitics?Poetics

Abstract

This article is intended as an exploration into what I call indigenous cosmopolitics-poetics, in the metaphysical sense of the politics of the cosmos, and as an attempt to draw a parallel between these cosmopolitics and recent anthropologi cal work on relational ontology. Among the expressions of contemporary indigenous cosmopolitics, I explore: the notion of the person as dividual and of the self as relational; the con cept of ancestrality; and translocal networks of ritual exchanges and gatherings. To explore these avenues, I draw from my work