Forest breeding and predation

Abstract

Ivan clarifies that when he began to think about the thesis on peasant families and native forest he did not want to fall into one of the typical studies of peasantry "means of production, domestic unit, Marx, Marx..." and decided to go to the forest to look for the subject, the inspiration, and perhaps the mystique that would guide him. And he let himself be guided by the forest: mistoles, tentitacos, quirquinchos, men, women, mud, salt, sun and mulch. As he did not have much time, he went directly to talk to the men and women: Noemi, Javier, Sole, Alberto, Ismael, Hugo, Graciela, Jorge....

He discovered that the forest is not something neat and tidy, or clear and distinct, as the late René wanted. It is not even called forest, but mountain. And it is infinitely diverse, messy, messy? and conflictive. So, in order to understand and write something about it, in several visits, with their days and nights, I sat them down to talk, in a circle of bush, mate and stews, to those peasants I mentioned before. And also Viveiros de Castro, Tim Ingold, Rodolfo Kusch, Brian Ferrero, Claude Leví Strauss, and other people who had gone before him to other "mountains" and had made discoveries in other parts of the world.