The paper develops a processual analysis of sociality as it is constructed on a daily basis by the Cashinahua, an Amazonian people. It discusses critically the use made by anthropological analyses of the region of the term `sociability', questioning the tendency to see the `domestic' as inferior to the `public', or the `local' as encompassed by the `global'. I argue for a greater emphasis on the economic cycle of production and distribution, exchange and consumption, giving a central place within this economy to the complex process whereby gender is fabricated. The critical discussion is expanded through a brief ethnographic excursion, showing the central place occupied by Cashinahua women in the constitution of sociality.
Sociality; Gender; Anthropology of daily life; Ethnology; Cashinahua