The lecture focuses on the ethnocartographic work of Harakbut researcher Luis Tayori in the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios in the southeast of the country. In close collaboration with Harakbut elders, he collected information about life and knowledge in the ancestral territory of the Harakbut between 2015 and 2018 as well as in 2025, and processed it into ethnocartography. In addition to presenting the content, the lecture contribution particularly highlights how Luis Tayori connects different forms of knowledge through ethnocartography. It discusses how ethnocartography can thus become a tool for mediating different forms of knowledge. Using the example of these potentials in Luis Tayori's ethnocartographic work, the onto-epistemic limits of Western knowledge transmission are brought into discussion.
Speaker: Alessio Thomasberger, M.A.
Time: 12/11/26, 6-8 PM