Decentered Universality: Towards Reciprocal Dialogues in Center/Periphery Writing

ABSTRACT This epilogue to the “Indigenous Printing and Editorial Cultures: Memory, Media, and Collaboration between and beyond indigeneity and anthropology” In‐Focus Issue offers a critical reflection on Indigenous editorial practices and their implications for rethinking global frameworks of knowledge production. Drawing on scriptural genealogies such as Guaman Poma's and the Mapuche publishing tradition, the text challenges the notion that Indigenous writing is a recent or anthropologically mediated phenomenon. In dialogue with the articles in the dossier, it advocates for transforming center‐periphery relations and building more reciprocal and horizontal intellectual circuits. From a Latin American perspective, it calls for the recognition of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty and its potential to contribute to a decentered universality—one where collaboration does not reinforce hierarchies but enablesnew forms of critical knowledge co‐production.