The humankind and the corona-virus: an anthropological view about us, the nature

Abstract

This article is a theoretic exercise about the different perspectives from wich ocidentals and american indigenous perceive the corona-virus pandemic and its effects over nature and humankind. Rescuing Bakunin’s Philosophical Considerations (1871), we promote a dialogue between his conception of nature and of the frontiers between the human and the non-human, built in opposition to some western philosophy’s basic principles, and recent anthropological lectures wich search in american indigenous philosophies alternative explanations to the pandemic causes. The american indigenous’s perspectivism and it’s relational ontology contribute to overcome the opposition between nature and humankind characteristic of western science, and promoting a nature’s approach on wich all the beings, including humans, are interconnected and are part of something bigger, in wich each species sees itself as human, and then we have to constantly negotiate our predatory acts in a way to maintain the ecological balance.