ABSTRACT
Academic ways of thinking about food have undergone a number of "turns" over the years. This chapter sympathizes with this new academic orientation and with its emphasis on the relationship between people and food. It argues that this contribution in agrofood studies has been intensely and strongly affected by the rise of food movements. The chapter posits that this new current in agrofood studies has insufficiently involved Indigenous people in thinking about the affects and experiences with food in the contemporary world. It addresses this inadequacy by presenting an Indigenous perspective on these affects and experiences and how these in turn relate to food and the wider web of life. The chapter focuses on Andoque responses to the arrival of a new phenomenon in a historically plentiful Amazon: food shortage. It highlights a number of dilemmas that the Andoque face when choosing to take part (or not) in mining; choices that inevitably link up with their food supply.
