This report summarizes fieldwork among the Andoque of Northwestern Amazonia (Colombia). The research explores how the Andoque’s notion of power is constructed and negotiated, and how it operates, in different entanglements between the Andoque, their territory and its nonhuman entities, and non-indigenous agents, as the Andoque oscillate between a grip of the “stone ax” and of the “metal” one. While the former represents the Andoque’s ethos of economic independence and territorial…
