Technique, power, transformation

Views from Brazilian anthropology

Bibliographic Data

ID2489178
AuthorsF Mura (0000-0003-2840-6355, Universidade Federal da Paraíba), C E Sautchuk (0000-0002-2427-2153, Universidade de Brasília)
Year2019
Volume16
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherAssociação Brasileira de Antropologia (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412019v16d451
OpenAlexW2990827242
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412019000100451
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited47

The article presents contemporary approaches to the anthropology of technique, its theoretical-methodological specificities and the form in which it is expressed in Brazil today, exemplified through the set of ethnographies making up this dossier. Exploring different types of transformations, these articles raise questions concerning the relationship between technique and power, involving environments and territories, plants and animals, objects and skills. In seeking to overcome the limitations of the nature/culture dichotomy and its derivatives, technique-based approaches have turned to ethnographically grounded solutions that move beyond discourse and avoid the collapse into other ethnocentrisms, expressed in a total symmetrisation or in the mere projection of human properties to non-humans

Algorithm · Biology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Philosophy

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