Abstract
Considering imitation and manufacturing as procedures of connection with nature, our article describes the agricultural practices of local populations and immigrant farmers in the province of Misiones (Argentina). The emphasis upon the procedures allows to establish continuities, and also frictions, between groups judged as antagonistic. Disqualified by rationalism, imitation and mimesis are valued here in terms of a materialist approach to meaning that discusses the primacy given to symbolic representations.
Keywords:
materiality; representation; technique; mimetic