Partiendo de ideas de Descola (Par-délà Nature et Culture: 2005),comparamos un sistema típicamente analogista: el de los nahuas deMéxico con sistemas del noroeste amazónico, que generan problemasen la clasificación, ya que —aunque descritos como animistas— algunosde sus rasgos recuerdan al analogismo. El objetivo principal esdeterminar qué tipos de sistemas pueden generar los diversos modosde identificación, y si esas configuraciones sistémicas pueden explicarlas similitudes entre los casos mencionados. Luego de destacar suscomponentes lógicos describimos los sistemas que los organizan. Sibien ambos —nahuas y noroeste amazónico— coinciden en nociónde causalidad circular, fuerte idea de orden que organiza las relacionesentre los componentes del mundo, la idea de que las accionesindividuales afectan peligrosamente la totalidad, estos serían efectosde superficie de sist...

Starting from Descola's ideas (Par-déla Nature et Culturc: 2005), we make a comparison between an analogic system, the ~Vahuas from Mexico, and the systems from the Northwest Amazon that create problems in the classification because -altough described as animists- they resemble the analogists ones. Our main goal is tofind out what kind of systems could be generated by the different modes of identification, and if these configurations can explain these similarities. After underlying their logic components, we describe the systems that organise them. Although both of them -the Nahuas and the Northwest Amazon- have the ideas of circular causality, anorder organising /he relationships between the components o/ the world, the notion that individual actions dangerously affect the whole, these would be just surface effects,from systems whose components are too closely relaled. Even though ther...

Starting from Descola's ideas (Par-déla Nature et Culturc: 2005), we make a comparison between an analogic system, the ~Vahuas from Mexico, and the systems from the Northwest Amazon that create problems in the classification because -altough described as animists- they resemble the analogists ones. Our main goal is tofind out what kind of systems could be generated by the different modes of identification, and if these configurations can explain these similarities. After underlying their logic components, we describe the systems that organise them. Although both of them -the Nahuas and the Northwest Amazon- have the ideas of circular causality, anorder organising /he relationships between the components o/ the world, the notion that individual actions dangerously affect the whole, these would be just surface effects,from systems whose components are too closely relaled. Even though ther...