Abstract

In this article we illustrate the implications of the principle raised by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in her lecture Always relating (2024), by contextualizing them in two Amerindian examples. In doing so, we highlight the importance of pursuing an introspective reflection challenging the very terms through which anthropology operates. Also, we observe how Strathern’s thoughts on anthropological thinking might shed light on some unnoticed aspects of ethnographic description on Amerindian philosophies, as for the relation between object and subject.