According to anthropologist Arturo Escobar, any life vision builds a world. The dominant cosmovision of modernity, born in Europe, is contrasted with the cosmovisions of different ethnic groups, pre-colonial systems of values and practices carried by various Indigenous peoples: values and practices based on the respect for life in all its forms. According to sociologist Ariel Salleh, these cosmovisions teach us how to inhabit a place with respect.