Materiality of Mountains and De-ontologizing Nature

All of this information is in a more easily readable format in the file titled “0. Final Paper Instructions”)
INSTRUCTIONS FROM PROFESSOR:
The final research paper (25% of total grade) should demonstrate strong familiarity with Frédérique Apffel-Marglin study, Stefano Varese’s ethnographic memoir, and academic, peer-reviewed articles read throughout the course. All can and should be used as points of reference to write the final research paper.
You must also, accordingly and appropriately, incorporate readings of the second part of the course available on Canvas. The final essay must not exceed 8 pages, or have less than 6 pages, excluding a separate references page. (Relevant materials attached! More about them in the “My idea for the paper” section below)
It is now evident that several Modernities can be found in Latin America. Rather than a synchronized and homogenized culture, Latin America offers simultaneous, overlapping meanings of time/space concepts. To understand such variability, anthropologists focusing on Latin America provide an array of ethnographic innovations such as multispecies ethnography as well as its own world system entanglements beyond modern binaries. By submitting your own research prospectus, and by conducting thematic library research as additional work, your final paper engages specific materialities.
(All of this info is in the file titled “1. Assignment instructions from professor”)
When it comes to sources, he wants us to use a minimum of 2 articles that we read in class, a minimum of 1 chapter from each book we read in class, and a minimum of 2 other peer-reviewed sources. Use this as a guide but don’t limit yourself to the minimum!