PROCESOS TÉCNICOS Y TRADICIONES DE CONOCIMIENTO LOCALES

MIRADAS DESDE/HACIA BRASIL Y ARGENTINA

Abstract

This article presents the dossier “Processos técnicos e tradições de conhecimento locais”, which addresses the techniques as the result of skill and practical activities. Firstly, we contextualize the dossier, as the result of distinct scientific events of the last decade, where the confluence of studies on sociotechnical processes in South America is evidenced. Then we go through important concepts: the techniques as an effective traditional act, the tendency and the technical fact, the processes of individuation, the traditions of knowledge, the education of attention, the appropriation of cultural resources and practice communities, highlighting how the view from and toward Brazil and Argentina has produced a unique articulation of these contributions. Lastly, we go through the dossier’s thirteen articles, which themes focus on the relation between territory, environment, and technique; the connection between humans, plants and animals; the traditions of knowledge, the body and the aesthetic; the techniques in state institutions and social movements; and lastly the human techniques in the dialog between social anthropology and archaeology.