RT Article
T1 The pirarucu net: Artefact, animism and the technical object
JF Journal of material culture
VO 24
IS 2
SP 176
OP 193
A1 Sautchuk, Carlos Emanuel
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1690932724
AB This article explores the decision of a group of Amazonian lake fishermen to ban the use of nets to catch the pirarucu fish as part of an official agreement. It discusses the approach to artefacts found in the agentive turn and in recent explorations of Amazonian animism in Anthropology. It adopts the concept of technical object influenced by the anthropological approach to technology and in line with the ontogenetic perspective of Gilbert Simondon. The main focus is the way in which the fishermen compare the different modes of existence of the harpoon and the net. For them, the pirarucu net is a poor way to catch fish since it captures by itself, which is a form of cowardice in relation to the fish and drives them away. The ethnography centres on the operation of these objects and the way in which different properties of the fishermen and fish emerge through these processes.
K1 Amazon
K1 Gilbert Simondon
K1 anthropology of technology
K1 Fish
K1 technical object
DO 10.1177/1359183518804268