Telling Stories, Being Places: Indigenous Ontologies in Guyana

This paper demonstrates how active construction of places, through being, knowing, and doing can encourage an acceptance of process as integral, transformative becoming (after Gilles Deleuze) as essential, and reimagining as welcome in Indigenous worldviews. By introducing alternative geographies of place, specifically through the Indigenous lens of myth, the paper focuses on how multiple imaginaries can influence alternate and multiple ideas of place(s). In doing so, the Indigenous space of multiple geographies contributes to the recognition of Indigenous politics as fundamental to both traditional and modern understandings of the Rupununi in Guyana.