The Human-Nature Relationship in Indigenous Religions and Cosmologies of the Americas

Lecture by: Assist. Prof. Marija Mojca Terčelj, PhD, Faculty of Humanities Koper

Cankarjev dom Literature and Humanities The Human-Nature Relationship in Indigenous Religions and Cosmologies of the Americas

The lecture focuses on the conceptions of nature in three indigenous peoples of the Americas. From their cosmological and religious perceptions, the speaker will summarize and highlight the most prominent aspects of the human-nature relationship in a particular cosmology: the human-animal relationship in the Toba and Ishir hunting communities of the Paraguayan Chaco, the human-forest relationship in the Yucatec Maya and the human-land relationship in the Quechua and Aymara peoples of the Andes.