Envy encompasses various forms of relatedness among Aguabuena people, a small potter community of rural Andean Colombia. Drawing from ethnographic material, this article explores how envy is reciprocated in three concrete scenarios (kinship, legal sues, and hydraulics), arguing for an understanding centered in envy's ordinariness and daily practices as an analytical context from where to revisit more universalistic ideas
Este artículo explora los afectos que emergen al bordar en redes de mujeres que se definen a sí mismas como bordadoras. Nos interesan en particular dos aspectos: las subjetividades que desde el bordado reconfiguran relaciones en el mundo de las mujeres y los intercambios que estos afectos mueven, expresados en trueques por fuera de circuitos comerciales. La inmersión etnográfica en espacios de bordado presenciales y virtuales fue uno de los escenarios del trabajo de campo; allí cobraron especial relevancia las reflexiones que otras bordadoras consignaron en ejercicios de escritura sobre sus trayectorias con el bordado. El otro escenario de investigación se refiere a la práctica de intercambio de bordados por otros bordados, que quedaron registrados en historias de Instagram. En ambos contextos proponemos que los afectos que se bordan devienen en sustrato de vidas singulares que tensan distintas formas de comunidad al intercambiarse.
Gestión: ambivalence and temporalities of kinship and politics in the Colombian AmazonIn the city of Mocoa in the Colombian Amazon, indigenous leaders capture desired resources for their communities using skilful navigation and engagement in the diverse institutional landscape of this bureaucratic centre of the Putumayo region. Interactions between these leaders and multiple political actors are locally known as gestión. In this article, we explore this ethnographic category by analysing the ways in which gestión interweaves kinship, politics and temporality. Describing gestión in the lives of two cousins, two Inga women who are both experienced leaders, we argue that it entails generating and fostering friendships and alliances by means of kinship networks and practices, which are central to capturing resources and maintaining relationships among ethnic leaders and communities, where mistrust is part of political dynamics and family life.We also show how leaders incorporate the temporalities of gestión into their lives through kinship notions to become powerful political agents in Mocoa.
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