"Playful agriculture" in the lowlands of South America?
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v32i2pe220316Keywords:
indigenous agriculture , hunter gatherers, domestication, Alto AmazonasAbstract
David Graeber calls the agriculture of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon “playful agriculture” and associates it with a space of freedom. This article is, in a way, a comment and a corroboration of this idea. He explores the indigenous meanings of “owners” and “cultivation” and reintroduces the importance of persistence, in these societies that resist self-domestication, of the option for a hunting and gathering regime, simultaneously of mobility and abundance.
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