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Forms of Amerindian communication: between nature and culture This article begins with a series of reflections on the place of animals in ontolo-gies as different as those of medieval Western medieval cosmology and Amerindian cultures, and on the importance of language and other forms of communication and representation of those world views, particularly the latter: myths, body painting and other forms of bodily adornment, and graphic representations of the relationship between humans and non-humans on material supports such as ceramics. The text aims to show the relevance of considering the place of human beings relative to that of animals in classificatory systems and, particularly, of language in its many forms as the means par excellence for observing the relationship, continuous or discontinuous, between humans and non-humans.