Money and reciprocity in the Cintas-Largas: notes for a political economy in the southern Amazonia

Abstract

Among the Cintas-Largas, through a continuous flow of goods and services, the interests of the political chief are intertwined with those of the residents of his village. And, in the contemporary context of their exterior relations, a kind of qualitative accounting of agreements and debts (about the trade of timber and the exploitation of mines), associates them with a wide range of actors and social. Thus, instances of negotiation and mechanisms of financial control became an extended space of disputes between heads, villages and associations. This article describes the local forms of ownership, circulation and use of money, which evidence the semantics of the “hunt money” that they developed over the last three decades.