Tommaso Montagnani
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 205 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tommaso Montagnani |
| NOMBRES | Tommaso |
| APELLIDO | Montagnani |
| FIRMA | MONTAGNANI T |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0617-6643 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1021 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Could Manioc Have Been a Root of the State?
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory
O Despertar de Tudo no Brasil. Uma entrevista com David Wengrow
Chapter One. Within the Limits of a Certain Language
Chapter 1 Too Many Owners
The continuous is a jungle
L'article développe une esthétique amazonienne qui s'exprime à travers un régime de petits intervalles, produisant de la variation au moyen de différences minimales. Il propose que cette esthétique soit non seulement à la base des arts visuels et verbaux-musicaux amazoniens, mais aussi de la perception et de l'engagement des peuples amazoniens envers le monde. Ce faisant, l'article inverse la priorité que Lévi-Strauss accordait au discret sur le …
Afinidades e Diferenças
Este artigo é a segunda parte de nossa discussão sobre a "política da consideração" proposta por José Kelly e Marcos Matos, e sua relação com as nossas teorias da maestria. Na primeira parte, publicada no número anterior deste periódico, analisamos as premissas dos autores e reinterpretamos os dados etnográficos nos quais estas se sustentam. Nesta segunda parte, reivindicamos o lugar central dos esquemas relacionais da maestria na etnologia indíg…
Untamed Amazonia
The ruses of Amerindian art
Previous article FreeBook SymposiumThe ruses of Amerindian art A reply Fausto, Carlos, 2020. Art effects: Image, agency, and ritual in Amazonia. Translated by David Rodgers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Carlos FaustoCarlos FaustoFederal University of Rio de Janeiro and Princeton University Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked…
Amazonian House-ing
This visual essay documents the house-ing practices of Amazonian river dwellers and urban and peri-urban residents in the face of large-scale development projects. In Altamira (Pará, Brazil), the construction of the third-largest hydroelectric dam in the world, the Belo Monte Plant, has led to the flooding of housing areas along rivers and the displacement of residents into collective urban resettlements. Although the complexities of people’s liv…
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
Afinidades e diferenças
Este artigo promove uma discussão crítica sobre a "política da consideração" proposta por Kelly e Matos, em texto publicado nesta revista. O objetivo é comparar interpretações alternativas sobre o mundo indígena amazônico e daí tirar algumas consequências teórico-etnográficas. O artigo será publicado em duas partes. Na primeira, analisam-se as premissas dos autores, bem como os dados etnográficos que sustentam seus argumentos. Na segunda, esclare…
Under Heavy Fire
What kind of times are these when a talk about trees is almost a crime? Among other things, they are times of forgetfulness. Forgetting does not mean that reminiscences just vanish as time goes by. It is, on the contrary, a major cultural force grounded in a politics of anti-memory. One needs to forget in order to keep repeating oneself. In this article, I argue that the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro did not burn to the ground merely because …
Combien coûte une chanson ? La culture du prix et le prix de la culture
Le texte présenté ici traite d'une question - à qui appartient la culture, et de quelle nature est cette « propriété » ? - que Gradhiva a déjà abordée à plusieurs reprises, notamment dans le dossier de son numéro 12 intitulé La Musique n'a pas d'auteur paru en 2010 et coordonné par Christine Guillebaud, Julien Mallet et Victor A. Stoichita.À partir des données collectées chez les Kuikuro dans le sud de l'Amazonie brésilienne, Carlos Fausto, profe…
The Enemy, the Unwilling Guest and the Jaguar Host
Malgré sa prétendue universalité, l'hospitalité offre peu d'intérêt ethnographique et théorique pour l'Amazonie, n'étant ni un idiome indigène important, ni un opérateur sociocosmique abstrait. Pourquoi en est-il ainsi ? Pourquoi l'hospitalité est-elle si primordiale en Eurasie, et non en Amazonie ? Dans cet article, nous soutenons l'idée que l'étroite association de l'hospitalité avec le double concept de souveraineté et de domestication constit…
Animism
Drawing on the work of the physician G. E. Stahl, Edward Burnett Tylor provided his famously terse definition of animism as “the belief in spiritual beings,” a definition which later authors, among them James G. Frazer, redefined in terms of its originary place in the evolution of religion. The subsumption of animism to unilineal evolution proved to be its death sentence, since it vanished along with the paradigm that had claimed it in the early …
Was there ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics? Plant familiarisation and biodiversity in the Amazon
Within the Limits of a Certain Language
Chefe Jaguar, Chefe Árvore
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil's political crisis
Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for political survival. In a little over one year, the agribusiness lobby and its allies have managed to erode thirty years of human rights and conservation laws. Indigenous peoples and their territorial rights are among the main targets of such policies, and there is no resolution to the s…
Ownership and Nurture
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies…
Corpos sonoros
Procuro descrever neste artigo o modo pelo qual uma prática musical instrumental kuikuro repousa sobre a atribuição aos artefatos de uma forma de vitalidade. Os instrumentos musicais (flauta Kagutu, flauta dupla Atanga, clarinete Takwara), ao longo de seu ciclo vital, recobram uma função de mediação no estabelecimento da conexão entre humanos e espíritos. Os humanos fazem oferendas de alimentos e de água aos instrumentos, ao passo que os instrume…
Socialidade e diversidade de pequis (Caryocar brasiliense, Caryocaraceae) entre os Kuikuro do alto rio Xingu (Brasil)
Este artigo versa sobre aspectos socioculturais do cultivo de pequi (Caryocar brasiliense) entre os Kuikuro do alto Xingu, para os quais esta espécie possui alto valor simbólico e alimentar. O cultivo de pequi é uma prática compartilhada entre os nove povos indígenas que compõem uma sociedade pluriétnica e multilinguística na região dos formadores do Rio Xingu, da qual os Kuikuro fazem parte. A despeito da grande importância desta espécie entre o…
Conflict, Peace, and Social Reform in Indigenous Amazonia
Sociocultural transformations brought about by indigenous leaders in Amazonia have been described as prophetic, millenaristic, or messianic and contrasted with modern reformism. This article addresses new ways of describing processes of change negotiated among indigenous actors. Although these processes are mostly absent from colonial or later sources, they should not remain foreign to ethnology, as the three empirical cases analyzed in this essa…
Da responsabilidade social de antropólogos e arqueólogos
Este texto foi escrito (mas nunca impresso) em novembro de 2006 em reação ao desfecho (que então se anunciava) no que toca à exploração hidroelétrica dos formadores do rio Xingu, no norte do Mato Grosso. Como se pode esperar, aqueles que defendiam, como princípio de precaução, a preservação dos rios e odireito indígena ao seu patrimônio imaterial saíram derrotados. A discussão sobre o papel de antropólogos e arqueólogos nesse processo, contudo, a…
Donos demais
O texto versa sobre certa categoria indígena - usualmente traduzida por "dono" ou "mestre" - que, na Amazônia, transcende em muito a simples expressão de uma relação de propriedade ou domínio. A categoria e seus recíprocos designam um modo generalizado de relação, que caracteriza interações entre humanos, entre não-humanos, entre humanos e não-humanos e entre pessoas e coisas. Trata-se de uma categoria-chave para a compreensão da sociologia e da …
Feasting on People
A problem of particular concern in the literature on animistic systems is the status of hunting and food consumption in societies whose ontology is not founded upon a distinction between humans and animals. If animals are people, how can one distinguish between everyday eating and cannibalism? Commensality is a vector for producing kinship among humans, a mechanism which depends on the transformation of the animal prey into an object devoid of in…
Of Enemies and Pets
Indigenous warfare in tropical South America, frequently involving cannibalism and trophy hunting, has been a recurrent theme in Americanist literature. Since the 16th century, conquerors, missionaries, chroniclers, and more recently anthropologists have striven to make sense of the phenomenon. In this article, I propose a model of social reproduction that subsumes warfare and shamanism within a generalized economy. I show the existence of a dial…
The Return of the Animists
This article surveys recent anthropological work on Amazonian ontologies, presenting the case for a renewed interest in animism. It argues that the so-called 'ontological turn' in anthropology has gone hand-in-hand with a rediscovery of the importance of animism as a widespread mode of relating to non-humans, not only in Amazonia but also in other regions of the world. The article suggests that Amazonianist anthropologists are particularly well p…
Was there ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics? Plant familiarisation and biodiversity in the Amazon
Banquete de gente
Partindo da noção de predação familiarizante, este artigo visa discutir a relação entre canibalismo e comensalidade na Amazônia, tomando-os como formas diferenciadas, mas articuladas, de consumo. Começa-se por uma análise da relação entre guerra e caça em ontologias que atribuem aos animais a condição de pessoa. Discute-se o encadeamento dos ciclos de predação de humanos e animais por meio das concepções de doença e de resguardo. Argumenta-se que…
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil's political crisis
Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for political survival. In a little over one year, the agribusiness lobby and its allies have managed to erode thirty years of human rights and conservation laws. Indigenous peoples and their territorial rights are among the main targets of such policies, and there is no resolution to the s…
Se Deus fosse jaguar
Por meio de uma reanálise da literatura sobre a "religião guarani", pretende-se indicar como e em que direções ela se transformou, desde o século XVI, recriando-se como a "religião guarani" contemporânea, tal qual a descreveu a etnologia do século XX. O pano de fundo dessa análise é a leitura crítica da noção de um "modo de ser guarani" fundado em uma religiosidade impermeável à mudança. Busca-se sugerir que o contato com o cristianismo missionár…
La Puissance et l'acte. La parenté dans les basses terres d'Amérique du Sud
Castro Eduardo Viveiros, Fausto Carlos. La Puissance et l'acte. La parenté dans les basses terres d'Amérique du Sud. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. La remontée de l'Amazone. pp. 141-170
The bones affair
This article explores the relation between beliefs and practices manifest in the interaction between indigenous people and outsiders in contact situations. Drawing on oral history, myth, and written documentation, it seeks to reconstruct the experience of the Parakanã, a Tupi-speaking people of Southeastern Amazonia, in their early stable contact with national society. It focuses on some apparently implausible events in order to address the quest…
Les formes de la mémoire
Les Kuikuro possèdent un vaste répertoire de récits, discours cérémoniels, prières, chants et musiques instrumentales. Les récits sont appris de façon informelle dans le cadre familial, tandis que les autres genres verbaux et musicaux sont transmis d'un maître à un apprenti contre paiement en objets de luxe. Les chants rituels forment un immense répertoire de grande valeur et très difficile à apprendre. Dans certains cas, plus de dix ans sont néc…
Socialidade e diversidade de pequis (Caryocar brasiliense, Caryocaraceae) entre os Kuikuro do alto rio Xingu (Brasil)
Este artigo versa sobre aspectos socioculturais do cultivo de pequi (Caryocar brasiliense) entre os Kuikuro do alto Xingu, para os quais esta espécie possui alto valor simbólico e alimentar. O cultivo de pequi é uma prática compartilhada entre os nove povos indígenas que compõem uma sociedade pluriétnica e multilinguística na região dos formadores do Rio Xingu, da qual os Kuikuro fazem parte. A despeito da grande importância desta espécie entre o…
Feeding (and Eating)
Faire le mythe. Histoire, récit et transformation en Amazonie
Faire le mythe. Histoire, récit et transformation en Amazonie. Par l'analyse des différentes versions d'un mythe parakanã (tupi-guarani) sur l'origine des Blancs, cet article cherche à comprendre les conditions de production des variantes d'un mythe, les mécanismes d'incorporation de l'expérience historique et les processus par lesquels les événements sont condensés sous forme narrative. Les différentes versions parakanã sont comparées à d'autres…
The friend, the enemy, and the anthropologist
Here I investigate a special relationship existing among the Tupi-speaking Parakanã of Amazonia, usually translated as 'friendship', and implying expectations of hospitality. Its field of application spans from the closest other (the cross-cousin) to the most distant (the enemy). I show that this kind of relationship is internally structured around an unstable prey-predator polarity, meaning that the most intimate other is also the prey closest t…
Reconquistando o campo perdido
O artigo retoma as pesquisas de campo de Lévi-Strauss no Brasil com base em discussões etnográficas e debates teóricos que sua obra americanista suscitou. O fio condutor é o problema do dualismo, cujo desenvolvimento aqui se acompanha desde os textos inaugurais sobre os Bororo e os Nambikwara até História de Lince (1991). Neste percurso, chama-se atenção para o lugar central dos materiais sul-americanos na obra do autor bem como para a relevância…
The Enemy, the Unwilling Guest and the Jaguar Host
Malgré sa prétendue universalité, l'hospitalité offre peu d'intérêt ethnographique et théorique pour l'Amazonie, n'étant ni un idiome indigène important, ni un opérateur sociocosmique abstrait. Pourquoi en est-il ainsi ? Pourquoi l'hospitalité est-elle si primordiale en Eurasie, et non en Amazonie ? Dans cet article, nous soutenons l'idée que l'étroite association de l'hospitalité avec le double concept de souveraineté et de domestication constit…
Sangue de Lua
Moon’s blood: reflections on spirits and eclipses. In 2003, the author witnessed a partial eclipse of the moon in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse (Upper Xingu, Brazil), which was followed by a series of ritual actions. These activities were documented by a team of Indigenous film-makers who produced a documentary video about the event. Taking this ethnographic and cinematographic experience as his starting point, the author reflects on the meaning …
Acting translation
This paper focuses on a prophetic movement led by an Amerindian from Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 2006. This man created a radically new liturgy and cosmology by combining elements borrowed from local shamanism and mythology, Christianity and TV shows, among other sources. He managed to convince entire villages to take part in spectacular healing ceremonies and gathered a huge number of followers. One of these ceremonies was extensively filmed by indi…
Flûtes des hommes, chants des femmes
Cet article analyse les relations entre la musique du rituel des flûtes sacrées kagutu et les chants féminins tolo chez les Kuikuro du Haut-Xingu. Kagutu et tolo forment un système transrituel dans lequel une relation complexe entre hommes, femmes et esprits est établie au moyen de la musique et du langage. La musique kagutu est la voix des itseke, les esprits/animaux. Les flûtes kagutu, jouées par les hommes, reproduisent lors du rituel le son d…
Le masque de l'animiste The Animist's Mask. Chimeras and Russian dolls in indigenous America
This article explores the concept of perspectivism in Amazonian indigenous thought, challenging the notion of a uniform animism. Fausto argues against a simplistic understanding of animism as the attribution of souls to all things, proposing instead a more nuanced view where the ascription of agency and intentionality depends on the subject's perspective and position within a relational ontology. He uses the metaphor of "Russian dolls" to illustr…
Chefe Jaguar, Chefe Árvore
Feeding and being fed
When Women LostKagutuFlutes, To SingToloWas All They Had Left
This paper concerns the relations between men's sacred music played on kagutu flutes and women's tolo songs among the Carib-speaking Kuikuro of Central Brazil. The research for this paper is part of a multi-year documentation of the Upper Xingu Carib language being done by the Kuikuro themselves, with non-indigenous researchers serving as consultants. The men's kagutu flutes and their music are regarded as highly powerful and potentially dangerou…
Masters in Amazonia
La Puissance et l'acte. La parenté dans les basses terres d'Amérique du Sud
Castro Eduardo Viveiros, Fausto Carlos. La Puissance et l'acte. La parenté dans les basses terres d'Amérique du Sud. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. La remontée de l'Amazone. pp. 141-170
Of Enemies and Pets
Indigenous warfare in tropical South America, frequently involving cannibalism and trophy hunting, has been a recurrent theme in Americanist literature. Since the 16th century, conquerors, missionaries, chroniclers, and more recently anthropologists have striven to make sense of the phenomenon. In this article, I propose a model of social reproduction that subsumes warfare and shamanism within a generalized economy. I show the existence of a dial…
Banquete de gente
Partindo da noção de predação familiarizante, este artigo visa discutir a relação entre canibalismo e comensalidade na Amazônia, tomando-os como formas diferenciadas, mas articuladas, de consumo. Começa-se por uma análise da relação entre guerra e caça em ontologias que atribuem aos animais a condição de pessoa. Discute-se o encadeamento dos ciclos de predação de humanos e animais por meio das concepções de doença e de resguardo. Argumenta-se que…
Faire le mythe. Histoire, récit et transformation en Amazonie
Faire le mythe. Histoire, récit et transformation en Amazonie. Par l'analyse des différentes versions d'un mythe parakanã (tupi-guarani) sur l'origine des Blancs, cet article cherche à comprendre les conditions de production des variantes d'un mythe, les mécanismes d'incorporation de l'expérience historique et les processus par lesquels les événements sont condensés sous forme narrative. Les différentes versions parakanã sont comparées à d'autres…
The bones affair
This article explores the relation between beliefs and practices manifest in the interaction between indigenous people and outsiders in contact situations. Drawing on oral history, myth, and written documentation, it seeks to reconstruct the experience of the Parakanã, a Tupi-speaking people of Southeastern Amazonia, in their early stable contact with national society. It focuses on some apparently implausible events in order to address the quest…
An Interview with Adam Kuper
Amazonia 1492
Archaeology and indigenous history of Native Amazonian peoples in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil reveal unexpectedly complex regional settlement patterns and large-scale transformations of local landscapes over the past millennium. Mapping and excavation of archaeological structures document pronounced human-induced alteration of the forest cover, particularly in relation to large, dense late-prehistoric settlements (circa 1200 to 1600 A.D.). T…
A Blend of Blood and Tobacco
Reconquistando o campo perdido
O artigo retoma as pesquisas de campo de Lévi-Strauss no Brasil com base em discussões etnográficas e debates teóricos que sua obra americanista suscitou. O fio condutor é o problema do dualismo, cujo desenvolvimento aqui se acompanha desde os textos inaugurais sobre os Bororo e os Nambikwara até História de Lince (1991). Neste percurso, chama-se atenção para o lugar central dos materiais sul-americanos na obra do autor bem como para a relevância…
Comentarios de Carlos Fausto
Aqui seguem comentários ao texto de G. Boccara, "Mundos Nuevos en las Fronteras del Nuevo Mundo". Escrevo em português -- língua que certo poeta caracterizou como "ao mesmo tempo esplendor e sepultura" -- na esperança que os leitores possam compreendê-lo. O ponto de partida do texto é a constatação de que a crítica à visão "ahistórica, essencialista y arcaizante" das formações sociais indígenas do passado e do presente, está de tal modo consolida…
Se Deus fosse jaguar
Por meio de uma reanálise da literatura sobre a "religião guarani", pretende-se indicar como e em que direções ela se transformou, desde o século XVI, recriando-se como a "religião guarani" contemporânea, tal qual a descreveu a etnologia do século XX. O pano de fundo dessa análise é a leitura crítica da noção de um "modo de ser guarani" fundado em uma religiosidade impermeável à mudança. Busca-se sugerir que o contato com o cristianismo missionár…
Feasting on People
A problem of particular concern in the literature on animistic systems is the status of hunting and food consumption in societies whose ontology is not founded upon a distinction between humans and animals. If animals are people, how can one distinguish between everyday eating and cannibalism? Commensality is a vector for producing kinship among humans, a mechanism which depends on the transformation of the animal prey into an object devoid of in…
Pre-Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon
The archaeology of pre-Columbian polities in the Amazon River basin forces a reconsideration of early urbanism and long-term change in tropical forest landscapes. We describe settlement and land-use patterns of complex societies on the eve of European contact (after 1492) in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon. These societies were organized in articulated clusters, representing small independent polities, within a regional peer polity…
Language, ritual and historical reconstruction
In this article we present results from interdisciplinary research among the Kuikuro of the Upper Xingu (Brazil). The project integrates linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological data as a means to reconstruct the processes through which peoples speaking languages of the three largest South American linguistic groupings (Arawak, Carib, and Tupi), as well as a language isolate (Trumai), came to create a unique social system: the Upper Xingu soci…
Donos demais
O texto versa sobre certa categoria indígena - usualmente traduzida por "dono" ou "mestre" - que, na Amazônia, transcende em muito a simples expressão de uma relação de propriedade ou domínio. A categoria e seus recíprocos designam um modo generalizado de relação, que caracteriza interações entre humanos, entre não-humanos, entre humanos e não-humanos e entre pessoas e coisas. Trata-se de uma categoria-chave para a compreensão da sociologia e da …
The Return of the Animists
This article surveys recent anthropological work on Amazonian ontologies, presenting the case for a renewed interest in animism. It argues that the so-called 'ontological turn' in anthropology has gone hand-in-hand with a rediscovery of the importance of animism as a widespread mode of relating to non-humans, not only in Amazonia but also in other regions of the world. The article suggests that Amazonianist anthropologists are particularly well p…
Flûtes des hommes, chants des femmes
Cet article analyse les relations entre la musique du rituel des flûtes sacrées kagutu et les chants féminins tolo chez les Kuikuro du Haut-Xingu. Kagutu et tolo forment un système transrituel dans lequel une relation complexe entre hommes, femmes et esprits est établie au moyen de la musique et du langage. La musique kagutu est la voix des itseke, les esprits/animaux. Les flûtes kagutu, jouées par les hommes, reproduisent lors du rituel le son d…
Le masque de l'animiste The Animist's Mask. Chimeras and Russian dolls in indigenous America
This article explores the concept of perspectivism in Amazonian indigenous thought, challenging the notion of a uniform animism. Fausto argues against a simplistic understanding of animism as the attribution of souls to all things, proposing instead a more nuanced view where the ascription of agency and intentionality depends on the subject's perspective and position within a relational ontology. He uses the metaphor of "Russian dolls" to illustr…
Les formes de la mémoire
Les Kuikuro possèdent un vaste répertoire de récits, discours cérémoniels, prières, chants et musiques instrumentales. Les récits sont appris de façon informelle dans le cadre familial, tandis que les autres genres verbaux et musicaux sont transmis d'un maître à un apprenti contre paiement en objets de luxe. Les chants rituels forment un immense répertoire de grande valeur et très difficile à apprendre. Dans certains cas, plus de dix ans sont néc…
Présences sonores. Musique, images et langue chez les Kuikuro du Haut Xingu
L’objectif de cet article est de s’interroger sur le rôle des images mentales dans l’exécution et dans l’audition de la musique rituelle chez les Kuikuro du Haut Xingu. La musique instrumentale des flûtes sacrées Kagutu est considérée comme la voix des Itseke. Ces entités non-humaines font entendre leur nom à travers le son de la flûte et ils se manifestent ainsi auprès de l’auditoire sous forme de fragment mélodique. Afin de mémoriser les struct…
Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia
Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia is an ethnographic study of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, who inhabit the interfluvial region in the state of Pará, Brazil. This book analyzes the relationship between warfare and shamanism in Parakanã society from the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, the book presents first-hand ethnographic data collected amo…
Sangue de Lua
Moon’s blood: reflections on spirits and eclipses. In 2003, the author witnessed a partial eclipse of the moon in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse (Upper Xingu, Brazil), which was followed by a series of ritual actions. These activities were documented by a team of Indigenous film-makers who produced a documentary video about the event. Taking this ethnographic and cinematographic experience as his starting point, the author reflects on the meaning …
When Women LostKagutuFlutes, To SingToloWas All They Had Left
This paper concerns the relations between men's sacred music played on kagutu flutes and women's tolo songs among the Carib-speaking Kuikuro of Central Brazil. The research for this paper is part of a multi-year documentation of the Upper Xingu Carib language being done by the Kuikuro themselves, with non-indigenous researchers serving as consultants. The men's kagutu flutes and their music are regarded as highly powerful and potentially dangerou…
Masters in Amazonia
The friend, the enemy, and the anthropologist
Here I investigate a special relationship existing among the Tupi-speaking Parakanã of Amazonia, usually translated as 'friendship', and implying expectations of hospitality. Its field of application spans from the closest other (the cross-cousin) to the most distant (the enemy). I show that this kind of relationship is internally structured around an unstable prey-predator polarity, meaning that the most intimate other is also the prey closest t…
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