The Cofán, like many other peoples who live outside of industrial capitalism, spend a lot of time doing what we would call nothing. As Cepek recounts, “I think folks in our society simply have a hard time ‘doing nothing,’ as strange as that might sound. I’m not talking about ‘watching TV’ as doing nothing; I’m talking about just sitting there on a floor, in a chair, in a hammock and looking and thinking. And [the Cofán] seem to enjoy it, or at least not actively avoid it.”[12]
As (Michael) Cepek...
