Digital Inclusion for Indigenous People: Techniques for using computers and smartphones among the Pataxó of Aldeia Velha (Bahia, Brazil)

Abstract This article reflects on information and communication technology from the perspective of the Anthropology of Technique. It provides an ethnography of technical relationships and interactions that occur through the medium of computers, smartphones and software, among the Pataxó of Aldeia Velha, in the far south of the Brazilian state of Bahia. These relations both transform and are transformed by the social morphology of the group, generating new skills, mobilizing and organizing material flows and revealing new operational sequences.

摘要 本文从技术人类学视角反思信息与通信技术。针对巴西巴伊亚州最南端旧村（Aldeia Velha）的帕塔索族（Pataxó）群体，本文开展民族志研究，考察以计算机、智能手机与软件为媒介形成的技术关系与互动模式。此类技术关系既受该群体的社会形态形塑，又反过来重塑其社会形态，催生全新技能体系，推动并整合物质流动，同时展现出全新的运作序列。