This article is about podcasts and mobile phones not only as "daily technologies of life" but also as ways to convey personal stories and to do ethnographic research. However, we do not romanticize the use of digital technology for anthropological research. We use podcasts as a form to write our ethnographic work with our collaborators, and also as a way to keep in contact with our collaborators while in a global pandemic. For podcasts, we had to do several interviews and later edited them as both dialogues and individual stories. Interviews were mostly done by other digital devices such as WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, and telephone calls. The stories in our podcast series are mostly about an Amazonian indigenous community struggling to survive the global pandemic after several oil spills and other epidemics. Podcasts create a sort of intimacy and co-presence stimulating a multimodal, sensorial experience. However, power relations do not disappear, nor did they become invisible. Rather, power relations are accommodated in the new audio/digital scenario.María Eugenia Ulfe and Roxana Vergara, "Podcasting collaborations and ontological relationships of being 'here' and 'there' in the lower Marañón River in Peru",
Este es un artículo sobre cómo pueblos indígenas de las tierras bajas del Río Marañón, en la Amazonía peruana, han respondido a la actual pandemia de COVID-19. El análisis se sitúa en los márgenes del Estado y en medios contaminados por el petróleo, donde las comunidades Kukama Kukamiria han desarrollado acciones de cuidado como actos políticos de supervivencia. Se trata de formas de trabajo colaborativo no asalariado que no son reconocidas en un sistema capitalista, pero que se configuran en acciones políticas de sobrevivencia frente a este. El artículo describe estos cuidados en el marco de una larga relación de no reconocimiento y explotación del Estado hacia los pueblos indígenas amazónicos. También analizamos cómo el cuidado presenta desafíos metodológicos, políticos, y éticos que requieren ser considerados en la etnografía remota, a distancia, y virtual, y que nos sugieren una propuesta de trabajo colaborativo.
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