ABSTRACT
This chapter engages some of Isabelle Stengers’s concepts (cosmopolitics, ecology of practices, diplomacy, in the presence of) as they travel from her philosophy to ethnographic conversations—which I call co-labor—I held with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna (persons in the indigenous Quechua language) who lived in the Andes of Cuzco. Rather than an exegesis of the philosopher’s concepts (which she created to think across scientific practices) in this chapter I describe how in the presence of my co-laborers I “tweak” Stengers’s concepts into ethnographic concepts to think indigenous practices that include the participation of Ausangate, a mountain that is also an earth-being, or tirakuna in Quechua.
