How to Fish With Respect
A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6012286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vinicius Aguiar Furuie (0000-0002-8052-3703, Department of Anthropology University of Toronto Scarborough Toronto Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-72 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.70044 |
| OpenAlex | W4416830023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing. This article analyzes shifting attitudes toward fish by focusing on the transformation of the notion of panema , a word that denotes an acquired state in which one becomes incapable of hunting and fishing. I argue that the commodification of fresh fish has not altered the animistic principle that fish are imbued with an interior state of mind and other markers of personhood. Commodification, however, has decreased the importance of spirit owners and increased the importance of the mental state of the fishers in their accounts of their activities. I pose that such transformation can only be properly accounted for by breaking down the analytical distinction between political economy and ontology and focusing on how the riverside inhabitants see it as a normative issue, measured in regard to respect
Amazon rainforest · Commodification · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Normative · Politics · State (computer science) · Transformation (genetics) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Beyond Nature and Culture
The Devil in Bolivia's Nationalized Tin Mines
The Perception of the Environment
Donos demais
O bom patrão e o inimigo voraz
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Cosmology as Ecological Analysis
The gift in the animal
Par-delà le structuralisme
Transformation transformed
The Threat of the Yrmo
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
Autonomous partners
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |