Os raios solares no espelho da antropologia das ciências e da modernidade: a rede do Fogão Solar em Areias, Uiraúna-PB.

Abstract

The present study aims to describe the controversy of the Solar Cooker that took place in the Areais Agricultural Community in the municipality of Uiraúna-PB from the ethnographic research carried out in this, articulating it with the laboratory literature of the German scientists. For this, influenced by Bruno Latour's Anthropology of Sciences and Modernity, it seeks to map the positions of the actors (their relations, interests and confrontations), in an approach that predisposes the reading of the "natures-cultures" also in the so-called "modern world". At the same time, it is based on classical anthropology as it relates to diachrony (Anthropology and History), since the network takes us from the Community to the German laboratory as well as from the present to the past. It also interprets the relationships established around a technology that is itself an actor, without the dichotomies between “society” and “nature”, “culture” and “science”.