The Hat of the “Boto-Man”: a brief analysis of sexual and gender diversity based on the relations between humans, non-humans and things in the Amazon Basin

Abstract

It is proposes in this article to present a reflection on the relationships between the experiences of sexual and gender diversity, corporalities, sensoriality, material culture and landscape in the interior of the Amazon Basin from an ongoing ethnographic research. The main objective is to discuss the uses and meanings of clothing as an important agent in the constitution of ontologies, forms of knowledge and subjectivities. Thus, it is intended to present other ways of thinking about the world, a world of multiple natures and bodies, a world in which bodies, landscapes and things assume, as transmitting and receiving agents, communication relations and, also, consciousness, intentionality and agency.