ABSTRACT
This chapter approaches the theme of landscape from two theoretical perspectives: a paradigm in contemporary Amazonian anthropology concerned with the corporeal constitution of ‘nature’, and a phenomenology of corporeity. The chapter identifies and explores conceptual homologies between the ontological notion of multinaturalism developed by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and the phenomenological theme of the ‘natural’ world in the philosophy of Jan Patočka. By shifting the notion of intentionality from the Cartesian subject toward a more expansive conception of subjectivity as corporeally constituted in the form of habitus, the chapter argues, it becomes possible not only to expand this concept beyond the human, but also to address the theme of historicity from the perspective of the non-human and ultimately the horizon of the landscape as a lived body. The chapter proposes, therefore, that Viveiros de Castro’s elaboration of the incorporation of bodies as the basis of multinatural perspectives in Amazonian anthropology can be interpreted from the point of view of a phenomenology of corporeity, functioning at the same time to expand the conceptual limits of such a phenomenology. In this way, the concept of the ‘natural’ world would indicate a somatology of landscape, as a framework for an ethics of landscape.
