Hunting paths in the Amazon: technics and ontogenesis among the Panará

Abstract This paper presents a description of hunting and an analysis of its technical relations among the Panará, an indigenous group which inhabits southern Amazonia. The paper is focused around two genetic processes of hunting: the individuation of the hunter and the constitution of a hunting territory. In this sense, it approaches the constitution of the hunter as person in relation with his weaponry, a technical object that is the mediator between the hunter’s action and the prey; afterwards, it approaches the forms of environment that emerges from the movement across the forest and through the production of hunting paths where the prey is encountered. The analysis of these aspects allows us to get insight of the hunting activity from the point of view of its actions, materials and interactions with the environment, from the analysis of technical elements which are socially relevant and construct important modes of relation between Panará and their territory.

本文对潘阿拉族群，一个居住在亚马逊南部地区的土著群体，的狩猎活动进行了描述，并对其狩猎技术关系进行了分析。论文聚焦于狩猎的两个遗传过程：猎人的个体化以及狩猎领土的构成。在此意义上，它探讨了猎人作为与武器相关的个体，这一技术客体作为猎人行动与猎物之间的中介；随后，它探讨了猎人在穿越森林以及通过生产狩猎路径中所遭遇的猎物所形成的自然环境形式。对这些方面的分析，使我们能够从狩猎活动的行动、物质及其与环境互动的角度，洞察潘阿拉族群与其领土之间由技术元素所构建的、具有社会相关性的重要关系模式。