The world can no longer deny that the planet is on the verge of an Anthropocene catastrophe. As scientists from different fields and from around the globe are discussing the causes, impacts, challenges, and solutions to the arrival of this human-induced new geological time, the field of law cannot remain behind. Rights of Nature (RoN), granting legal personhood to nature and its elements such as rivers, is an emerging transnational legal framework fast gaining international traction among Euro-American legal scholars as a new tool to combat environmental destruction. Grounded in reflections derived from long-term collaborative ethnographic work among indigenous communities, this article aims to critically and empirically unpack several interrelated concerns and blind spots at this moment of the RoN snowballing effect around the globe related to claims that this new legal proposal is rooted in indigenous lifestyles and views about nature/the environment.

世界不能再否认地球正处于人类世灾难的边缘。随着来自不同领域和全球各地的科学家正在讨论这个人为新地质时代到来的原因、影响、挑战和解决方案，法律领域不能落后。自然权利 (RoN) 赋予自然及其河流等要素以法人身份，是一种新兴的跨国法律框架，作为对抗环境破坏的新工具，在欧美法律学者中迅速获得国际关注。立足于土著社区之间长期合作的民族志工作的反思，