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Amazonian materialisms: The life of machines among the Yagua people

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Journal of Material Culture

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Abstract

Journal of Material Culture, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 30-47, March 2026.
This article presents different vignettes on the life of matter and machines among the Yagua people in northwestern Amazonia. Based on an extended period of ethnographic fieldwork, it highlights the potential ubiquity, plurality and complexity of life-...