Las materialidades comunicantes: los no objetos hablantes de la floresta amazónica digital

Abstract

The article addresses the communicational relations between humans and non-humans from the perspective of two ethnic groups in the Amazon: the Krahô and Sateré-Mawé. The article combines methodological techniques of ethnography and geolocation mapping. It also addresses the digital transformation of these non-objects, their displacements, and their new lives in digital networks. The result of both studies shows the impossibility of defining such materiality, alive and interacting, through the use of Western categories based on the ontological distinction between subject and object.

El artículo aborda las relaciones comunicativas entre humanos y no humanos desde la perspectiva digital y de los grupos étnicos en la Amazonía Legal: los Krahô y Sateré-Mawé. El artículo combina las técnicas metodológicas de etnografía y mapeo con geolocalización. El resultado de ambos estudios muestra la imposibilidad de definir tal materialidad, viva e interactuando, mediante el uso de categorías occidentales basadas en la distinción ontológica entre sujeto y objeto.

The article presents the performance and communicative qualities of a few materials present in some Amazon regions. Concomitantly, the article addresses the communicational relations between humans and non-humans from the perspective of two ethnic groups in the Amazon: the Krahô and Sateré-Mawé. In addition to the non-anthropocentric description, the article combines the ethnography and geolocation mapping methodological techniques. It also addresses the digital transformation of these non-objects, their displacements, and their new lives in digital networks. The result of both studies shows the impossibility of defining such materiality, alive and interacting, through the use of Western categories based on the ontological distinction between subject and object.