" Un poquito más nos ha unido el Covid". Pratiche di auto-governo durante la pandemia in una comunità indigena dell'Amazzonia peruviana"

This article explores the social and political transformations that occurred during the pandemic period within an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon, located in the heart of the Madre de Dios region. This ethnographic study will allow us to reflect on the capacities of coordination and self-government put in place to respond to a health and social crisis by a usually fragmented and conflictive community. Situated in the heart of both a focal point of the international timber trade and the backbone of the region's road system, the Shintuya community, of predominantly Arakmbut ethnicity, presents itself as an extremely complex socio-cultural reality, dominated by a spirit of individualism, privatisation and accumulation of economic capital. As an emblematic testimony of the main phenomena of social and economic transformation present in the last fifty years in the indigenous societies of the extractive frontiers, Shintuya becomes in 2020 an exceptional observatory on the collective capacities to respond to the crisis starting from a rethinking of the concepts of modernity, economic well-being and buen vivir.