The present article discusses the theme of « parity » in the Andean world. The authors offer a discussion of this theme in ontological, cosmological and socioeconomic terms from a variety of perspectives : intercultural medicine, Kichwa cosmovision, traditional Chinese medicine, and social and cultural anthropology. The following considerations are a critical review of the paradigms of duality and complementarity, discussing concepts and practices of indigenous nations in Ecuador and Colombia, and theoretical models, like tetralectical and dialectical logics. The article finds that parity is the key concept that captures Andean social relations, relations between society and nature, the cosmic flow of life forces, and constitutes both socio-cosmic harmony and its imbalances and consequent inversion of space-time. The cosmological system of parity ideologically underpins the normative socio-cosmic co-existence of communal solidarity, while it legitimates the tributarian mode of production and vertical redistribution in Incan society. Considérant les avancées du post-structuralisme sur les ontologies de l'analogisme, nous concluons notre essai avec une vue de la cosmovision ancestrale et de la médecine ancestrale de la Chine.

The present article discusses the theme of "parity" in the Andean world. The authors offer a discussion of this theme in ontological, cosmological and socioeconomic terms from a variety of perspectives: intercultural medicine, Kichwa cosmovision, traditional Chinese medicine, and social and cultural anthropology. The following considerations are a critical review of the paradigms of duality and complementarity, discussing concepts and practices of indigenous nations in Ecuador and Colombia, and theoretical models, like tetralectical and dialectical logics. The article finds that parity is the key concept that captures Andean social relations, relations between society and nature, the cosmic flow of life forces, and constitutes both socio-cosmic harmony and its imbalances and consequent inversion of space-time. The cosmological system of parity ideologically underpins the normative socio-cosmic co-existence of communal solidarity, while it legitimates the tributarian mode of production and vertical redistribution in Incan society. Considering the advances of post-structuralism on the ontologies of analogism, we conclude our essay with a view of ancestral cosmovision and the ancestral medicine of China.

The present article discusses the theme of "parity" in the Andean world. The authors offer a discussion of this theme in ontological, cosmological and socioeconomic terms from a variety of perspectives: intercultural medicine, Kichwa cosmovision, traditional Chinese medicine, and social and cultural anthropology. The following considerations are a critical review of the paradigms of duality and complementarity, discussing concepts and practices of indigenous nations in Ecuador and Colombia, and theoretical models, like tetralectical and dialectical logics. The article finds that parity is the key concept that captures Andean social relations, relations between society and nature, the cosmic flow of life forces, and constitutes both socio-cosmic harmony and its imbalances and consequent investment of space-time. The cosmological system of parity ideologically underpins the socio-cosmic co-existence of communal solidarity, while it legitimates the tributary mode of production and vertical redistribution in Incan society. Considering the advances of post-structuralism on the ontologies of analogism, we conclude our essay with a view of ancestral cosmovision and the ancestral medicine of China.

تناقش هذه المقالة موضوع "التكافؤ" في عالم الأنديز. يقدم المؤلفون مناقشة لهذا الموضوع من الناحية الأنطولوجية والكونية والاجتماعية والاقتصادية من مجموعة متنوعة من وجهات النظر: الطب متعدد الثقافات، وكيتشوا كوزموفيجن، والطب الصيني التقليدي، والأنثروبولوجيا الاجتماعية والثقافية. الاعتبارات التالية هي مراجعة نقدية لنماذج الازدواجية والتكامل، ومناقشة مفاهيم وممارسات الأمم الأصلية في الإكوادور وكولومبيا، والنماذج النظرية، مثل المنطق الرباعي والجدلي. يجد المقال أن التكافؤ هو المفهوم الرئيسي الذي يجسد العلاقات الاجتماعية في الأنديز، والعلاقات بين المجتمع والطبيعة، والتدفق الكوني لقوى الحياة، ويشكل الانسجام الاجتماعي الكوني واختلالاته وما يترتب عليه من استثمار الزمكان. يدعم النظام الكوني للتكافؤ أيديولوجيًا التعايش الاجتماعي الكوني للتضامن المجتمعي، بينما يضفي الشرعية على نمط الإنتاج الرافد وإعادة التوزيع الرأسي في مجتمع الإنكا. بالنظر إلى تقدم ما بعد البنيوية في أنطولوجيا التناظرية، نختتم مقالنا بالنظر إلى رؤية الأجداد وطب الأجداد في الصين.