La Princesa Mononoke: Una lectura ecopoética desde el “animismo” japonés, la cosmosemiótica y la etnografía amazónica.

Abstract

This article links, from an ecopoetic perspective, the textual narrative of Studio Ghibli cinema with Amazonian and Amerindian orality and cosmogonies. Using the hermeneutic method, the film The Princess Mononoke was reviewed through the analysis of the Japanese version of the film and by looking at Japanese authors who have reflected on ‘animism’, paying attention to the ontological conceptions of some passages of the film, comparing them with the reflections of the Amazon, particularly those of the Shipibo-Konibo nation. This work is based on extensive fieldwork and coexistence in indigenous territories, as well as an exhaustive review of the existing ethnography. Our main conclusion suggests that the ‘animism’ that runs through the animated film, by recognising the spiritual dimension that is transversal to the community of the living, carries a cosmopolitical dimension that is worth paying attention to, as it highlights the value of indigenous knowledge that recognises the sacredness of the forest and the ethical value of the respectful treatment of human beings with the community of the living.