| Sumario: | This article explores how Yanomami health agents use and produce documents in Upper Orinoco health posts in Venezuela. In recent decades, a growing number of Yanomami people have learned to read, write, and count, and to make use of different kinds of documents. Yanomami health agents are a particular case example, as health care involves constant production of documents about patients and their diseases. For doctors, documents such as epidemiological registries are useful in the production of collective knowledge about health and disease, or for administrative purposes in relation to a western logic of bureaucratic systems. However, for the Yanomami, these medical documents are relational objects, which open connections to the world of others, and technologies that allow them to be and 'do' like the doctors. The Yanomami often speak of their engagement with the health system as 'walking the path of health.' An important way to achieve this is learning how to produce medical documents. [Amazonia, health, indigenous people, social anthropology, Venezuela]
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