Stephen Hugh-Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5624682 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Hugh-Jones |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Hugh-Jones |
| FIRMA | HUGH-JONES S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 314 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Shamans' gardens
If ayahuasca shamanism is now well studied, the medicinal plant gardens that form a standard element of ayahuasca centers have received less attention. Based on detailed mapping, recorded commentaries, and an accompanying website (https://yakumamaylivepharmacy.org), this paper provides concise data about the range of plants found in one such garden. Exploring the medicinal gardens' relations to home gardens and swiddens, we identify a relatively …
Vaupés multilingualism and the substance of language
By focusing on ordinary conversational language, relying on a notion of “group” derived from unilineal descent theory, and neglecting mythology and ritual, studies of Vaupés Tukanoan multilingualism have inadvertently tended to reproduce a Western ideology of language as marking national identity and concerned with conveying meaning. This paper suggests that attention to musical, ritual, and shamanic contexts reveals multilingualism in a differen…
The spirit with no anus and the pots that fart
This paper takes as its starting point the story of a spirit with no anus whose inability to fart leads to his death and transformation into clay. In particular, it examines the relationship between pottery trumpets associated with this spirit (played in exchange ceremonies) and bark Jurupary trumpets and suggests that the two instruments stand in a relationship of “flesh” and “bone”. Uncovering this parallelism provides an opportunity to revisit…
Dictionnaire Claude Lévi-Strauss
Monteverdi’s unruly women and their Amazonian sisters
Lévi-Strauss argues that Amazonian mythology reveals a moral philosophy concerned with control of entries and exits to the tubes and apertures of the body. But which body? Following clues from attitudes to female singers in renaissance Italy, this essay suggests that this Amerindian body is not the one we take for granted but rather one very similar to the body that figures in the writings of Galen and other classical authors. This insight sheds …
Bonnes raisons ou mauvaise conscience ? Un post-scriptum
Stephen Hugh-Jones a ajouté un post-scriptum à son article de 1996 dans lequel il réagit aux arguments avancés par Philippe Descola, Florent Kohler et Felipe Vander Velden
Rhetorical antinomies and radical othering
Notions of animals as social subjects held by Amazonian Indians have played a central role in anthropology’s ontological turn. Written as a reply to two critical responses to an earlier paper on human-animal relations, this essay explores the complex and often contradictory nature of ideas about animals and attitudes toward them held by both Amerindians and Euro-Americans. It suggests that, alongside mythology and shamanism, a further source of t…
Lévi-Strauss, Poronominaré and the Cicadas. A footnote to The Jealous Potter
Lévi-Strauss’s book The Jealous Potter is devoted to an exploration of an Amerindian moral philosophy preoccupied with myths about the regulation of entry into and exit from the digestive tract. Sloths and howler monkeys are exemplars of continence and incontinence. Sloths have both a feeble whistle as a voice and fastidious excretory habits – on the rare occasions that they defecate, they come down from the trees to leave rock-hard droppings in …
Writing on Stone; Writing on Paper
This paper deals with the relation between different kinds of indigenous speech and music and various iconographic forms such as petroglyphs, house painting, basketry designs and also features of landscape that are understood in graphic terms. It examines how Northwest Amazonian myth-history is structured and memorized, how it can appear in both verbal and non-verbal forms, and how contemporary books, maps and diagrams produced by indigenous orga…
The Pleiades and Scorpius in Barasana Cosmology
This article examines the astronomical knowledge of the Barasana people of the Northwest Amazon, focusing on the significance of the Pleiades and Scorpius constellations in their cosmology and initiation rituals. Building upon Koch-Grünberg's early 20th-century ethnographic work, the author explores how these constellations serve as markers of time, influencing agricultural practices and shaping the Barasana understanding of the cosmos. The study…
Space-Time Transformations in the Upper Xingu and Upper Rio Negro
The multi-ethnic and multilingual complexes of the Upper Rio Negro and the Upper Xingu share common aspects that frequently emerge in ethnographies, including notions of descent, hierarchical social organization and ritual activities, as well as a preference for forms of exogamy and the unequal distribution of productive and ritual specialties and esoteric knowledge. In this article, the authors investigate how the people of both regions conceive…
L'objet livre
En concentrant leur attention sur le message, ou le contenu en général, des textes sacrés, les anthropologues ont souvent négligé le fait que les livres sont aussi des objets concrets. Les études de cas présentées ici, portant sur des sociétés dites tribales, invitent à s'intéresser aux matériaux dont sont façonnés les livres et à la façon dont les livres sont mis en relation avec d'autres objets, notamment rituels. Dans le même temps, la compara…
Analyses de sang
Traduit de l’anglais par Gérard Lenclud L’universel et le particulier Consacrer un volume de Terrain au sang, au sang tout court1, peut paraître relever de la gageure. Sujet obligé dès lors qu’il est question de la vie humaine, le sang constitue en effet un thème abordé dans un tel éventail de disciplines (physiologie, médecine, histoire, anthropologie, sciences des religions, etc.) et ayant suscité tant de travaux à la matière si riche qu’il sem…
Entre l'image et l'écrit. La politique tukano de patrimonialisation en Amazonie
Este artigo examina a política de patrimonialização Tukano na Amazônia colombiana, focando na interação complexa entre imagem e escrita. Hugh-Jones argumenta que os Tukano, em vez de simplesmente adotarem formas ocidentais de representação, as adaptaram e integraram em suas próprias práticas culturais e políticas. A pesquisa explora como fotografias, vídeos e documentos escritos são usados para negociar a identidade Tukano, reivindicar direitos t…
The Substance of Northwest Amazonian Names
INTRODUCTION The high profile of names and naming systems (“onomastics”) is a distinctive hallmark of the ethnographic literature on lowland South America. Names were typically excluded from anthropological research on kinship – witness textbooks on the subject – but when it came to the complex social structures of the Gê and Bororo or the Kariera-like section systems of the Panoans, relations predicated on the transfer of names turned out to be …
A courtship but not much of a marriage. Lévi-Strauss and British Americanist anthropology
To begin with 1 should say how ho noured 1 am to be able to render homage to Lévi-Strauss, who I personally consider to be not only the g reatest !il'ing anthropologist, but a lso the g reatest anthropologist, full stop.So it 's a great pleasure to be allowed to say some words about him.H owever, l'm afraid I'm the bringer of not particularly good news in that what 1 want to say to you is that my colleagues -my British colleagues -probably should…
Nomes secretos e riqueza visível
A importância dos sistemas de nominação para a compreensão das sociedades e culturas ameríndias é hoje amplamente reconhecida, mas as informações sobre esse tópico concernentes aos povos Tukano do Noroeste Amazônico permanecem esparsas e dispersas. Tomando os Barasana e seus vizinhos como referência, este artigo apresenta alguns dados básicos quanto à onomástica tukano e discute similaridades entre as patrilinhagens tukano e os grupos de perfil "…
The Gender of Some Amazonian Gifts
Amazonian and Melanesian ethnography takes “gender” to be a fixed, unitary, and relatively unproblematic attribute of persons. For Amazonia and Melanesia, both intra- and interregional comparisons compare like with like, flute cults with flute cults, exchange with exchange. This chapter builds on this analysis with reference to exchange, using some ethnography from the Xingu region of central Brazil as a comparative counterpoint. Northwest Amazon…
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides …
About the House
Bonnes raisons ou mauvaise conscience
Traduit de l'anglais par Philippe Erikson La première fois qu'ils se sont rendus en Amazonie, mes jeunes enfants furent horrifiés de voir qu'on y tuait des singes et des aras afin de les manger. Etre confrontés à la mort d'un quelconque animal était déjà assez difficile en soi, mais là, c'était le comble. Comment de telles créatures pouvaient-elles finir dans nos assiettes, alors qu'elles étaient les habitantes sacrées du monde merveilleux des li…
Inside-out and back-to-front
In recent years it has become increasingly evident that the small, fragmented tribes of Amazonian ethnography, twin products of colonial genocide and academic classificatory ethnogenesis, are poor guides for understanding an area once integrated by complex regional systems. If anthropologists have long recognized a fundamental unity beneath the manifest linguistic and cultural diversity of Amazonia, progress towards synthesis has been relatively …
About the House
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation
Hugh-Jones Stephen. Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. La remontée de l'Amazone. pp. 95-120
Barter, Exchange and Value
The Gun and the Bow Myths of White Men and Indians
Hugh-Jones Stephen. The Gun and the Bow Myths of White Men and Indians. In: L'Homme, 1988, tome 28 n°106-107. Le mythe et ses métamorphoses. pp. 138-155
Entre l'image et l'écrit. La politique tukano de patrimonialisation en Amazonie
Este artigo examina a política de patrimonialização Tukano na Amazônia colombiana, focando na interação complexa entre imagem e escrita. Hugh-Jones argumenta que os Tukano, em vez de simplesmente adotarem formas ocidentais de representação, as adaptaram e integraram em suas próprias práticas culturais e políticas. A pesquisa explora como fotografias, vídeos e documentos escritos são usados para negociar a identidade Tukano, reivindicar direitos t…
Bonnes raisons ou mauvaise conscience
Traduit de l'anglais par Philippe Erikson La première fois qu'ils se sont rendus en Amazonie, mes jeunes enfants furent horrifiés de voir qu'on y tuait des singes et des aras afin de les manger. Etre confrontés à la mort d'un quelconque animal était déjà assez difficile en soi, mais là, c'était le comble. Comment de telles créatures pouvaient-elles finir dans nos assiettes, alors qu'elles étaient les habitantes sacrées du monde merveilleux des li…
Barter, Exchange and Value
Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation
Hugh-Jones Stephen. Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. La remontée de l'Amazone. pp. 95-120
Death and the Regeneration of Life
Nomes secretos e riqueza visível
A importância dos sistemas de nominação para a compreensão das sociedades e culturas ameríndias é hoje amplamente reconhecida, mas as informações sobre esse tópico concernentes aos povos Tukano do Noroeste Amazônico permanecem esparsas e dispersas. Tomando os Barasana e seus vizinhos como referência, este artigo apresenta alguns dados básicos quanto à onomástica tukano e discute similaridades entre as patrilinhagens tukano e os grupos de perfil "…
Studying the Yanomamo
Space-Time Transformations in the Upper Xingu and Upper Rio Negro
The multi-ethnic and multilingual complexes of the Upper Rio Negro and the Upper Xingu share common aspects that frequently emerge in ethnographies, including notions of descent, hierarchical social organization and ritual activities, as well as a preference for forms of exogamy and the unequal distribution of productive and ritual specialties and esoteric knowledge. In this article, the authors investigate how the people of both regions conceive…
Writing on Stone; Writing on Paper
This paper deals with the relation between different kinds of indigenous speech and music and various iconographic forms such as petroglyphs, house painting, basketry designs and also features of landscape that are understood in graphic terms. It examines how Northwest Amazonian myth-history is structured and memorized, how it can appear in both verbal and non-verbal forms, and how contemporary books, maps and diagrams produced by indigenous orga…
About the House
Rhetorical antinomies and radical othering
Notions of animals as social subjects held by Amazonian Indians have played a central role in anthropology’s ontological turn. Written as a reply to two critical responses to an earlier paper on human-animal relations, this essay explores the complex and often contradictory nature of ideas about animals and attitudes toward them held by both Amerindians and Euro-Americans. It suggests that, alongside mythology and shamanism, a further source of t…
Analyses de sang
Traduit de l’anglais par Gérard Lenclud L’universel et le particulier Consacrer un volume de Terrain au sang, au sang tout court1, peut paraître relever de la gageure. Sujet obligé dès lors qu’il est question de la vie humaine, le sang constitue en effet un thème abordé dans un tel éventail de disciplines (physiologie, médecine, histoire, anthropologie, sciences des religions, etc.) et ayant suscité tant de travaux à la matière si riche qu’il sem…
Vaupés multilingualism and the substance of language
By focusing on ordinary conversational language, relying on a notion of “group” derived from unilineal descent theory, and neglecting mythology and ritual, studies of Vaupés Tukanoan multilingualism have inadvertently tended to reproduce a Western ideology of language as marking national identity and concerned with conveying meaning. This paper suggests that attention to musical, ritual, and shamanic contexts reveals multilingualism in a differen…
Monteverdi’s unruly women and their Amazonian sisters
Lévi-Strauss argues that Amazonian mythology reveals a moral philosophy concerned with control of entries and exits to the tubes and apertures of the body. But which body? Following clues from attitudes to female singers in renaissance Italy, this essay suggests that this Amerindian body is not the one we take for granted but rather one very similar to the body that figures in the writings of Galen and other classical authors. This insight sheds …
Lévi-Strauss, Poronominaré and the Cicadas. A footnote to The Jealous Potter
Lévi-Strauss’s book The Jealous Potter is devoted to an exploration of an Amerindian moral philosophy preoccupied with myths about the regulation of entry into and exit from the digestive tract. Sloths and howler monkeys are exemplars of continence and incontinence. Sloths have both a feeble whistle as a voice and fastidious excretory habits – on the rare occasions that they defecate, they come down from the trees to leave rock-hard droppings in …
Bonnes raisons ou mauvaise conscience ? Un post-scriptum
Stephen Hugh-Jones a ajouté un post-scriptum à son article de 1996 dans lequel il réagit aux arguments avancés par Philippe Descola, Florent Kohler et Felipe Vander Velden
The Pleiades and Scorpius in Barasana Cosmology
This article examines the astronomical knowledge of the Barasana people of the Northwest Amazon, focusing on the significance of the Pleiades and Scorpius constellations in their cosmology and initiation rituals. Building upon Koch-Grünberg's early 20th-century ethnographic work, the author explores how these constellations serve as markers of time, influencing agricultural practices and shaping the Barasana understanding of the cosmos. The study…
L'objet livre
En concentrant leur attention sur le message, ou le contenu en général, des textes sacrés, les anthropologues ont souvent négligé le fait que les livres sont aussi des objets concrets. Les études de cas présentées ici, portant sur des sociétés dites tribales, invitent à s'intéresser aux matériaux dont sont façonnés les livres et à la façon dont les livres sont mis en relation avec d'autres objets, notamment rituels. Dans le même temps, la compara…
A courtship but not much of a marriage. Lévi-Strauss and British Americanist anthropology
To begin with 1 should say how ho noured 1 am to be able to render homage to Lévi-Strauss, who I personally consider to be not only the g reatest !il'ing anthropologist, but a lso the g reatest anthropologist, full stop.So it 's a great pleasure to be allowed to say some words about him.H owever, l'm afraid I'm the bringer of not particularly good news in that what 1 want to say to you is that my colleagues -my British colleagues -probably should…
Studying the Yanomamo
To Hunt in the Morning
This article examines the Barasana people of the northwest Amazon and their hunting practices, focusing on the social and symbolic significance of hunting within their culture. It argues that hunting, beyond its subsistence function, plays a crucial role in Barasana cosmology and social organization. The authors explore the relationship between hunting, shamanism, and the maintenance of social equilibrium, highlighting the ritualistic aspects of …
The Mehinacu
Droga, Corrupción y Poder
Death and the Regeneration of Life
The Gun and the Bow Myths of White Men and Indians
Hugh-Jones Stephen. The Gun and the Bow Myths of White Men and Indians. In: L'Homme, 1988, tome 28 n°106-107. Le mythe et ses métamorphoses. pp. 138-155
Yesterday's luxuries, tomorrow's necessities
Central to capitalism is a vision of man's limitless needs, needs which lead to his increasing mastery of nature and which propel him onwards and upwards in a spiral of progress. In contemporary Amazonia, and with such progress in mind, missionaries, merchants and government officials vie with each other to bring the material and moral benefits of civilisation to Amerindians. Each mission combines church with store, and even the cocaine-dealers c…
Barter, Exchange and Value
This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more developed exchange mechanisms. For their part, anthropologists have been more interested in the social and moral complexities of the 'gift', and treat barter dismi…
Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation
Hugh-Jones Stephen. Clear Descent or Ambiguous Houses ? A Re-Examination of Tukanoan Social Organisation. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. La remontée de l'Amazone. pp. 95-120
Barter, Exchange and Value
Inside-out and back-to-front
In recent years it has become increasingly evident that the small, fragmented tribes of Amazonian ethnography, twin products of colonial genocide and academic classificatory ethnogenesis, are poor guides for understanding an area once integrated by complex regional systems. If anthropologists have long recognized a fundamental unity beneath the manifest linguistic and cultural diversity of Amazonia, progress towards synthesis has been relatively …
About the House
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Bonnes raisons ou mauvaise conscience
Traduit de l'anglais par Philippe Erikson La première fois qu'ils se sont rendus en Amazonie, mes jeunes enfants furent horrifiés de voir qu'on y tuait des singes et des aras afin de les manger. Etre confrontés à la mort d'un quelconque animal était déjà assez difficile en soi, mais là, c'était le comble. Comment de telles créatures pouvaient-elles finir dans nos assiettes, alors qu'elles étaient les habitantes sacrées du monde merveilleux des li…
About the House
The Gender of Some Amazonian Gifts
Amazonian and Melanesian ethnography takes “gender” to be a fixed, unitary, and relatively unproblematic attribute of persons. For Amazonia and Melanesia, both intra- and interregional comparisons compare like with like, flute cults with flute cults, exchange with exchange. This chapter builds on this analysis with reference to exchange, using some ethnography from the Xingu region of central Brazil as a comparative counterpoint. Northwest Amazon…
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides …
Nomes secretos e riqueza visível
A importância dos sistemas de nominação para a compreensão das sociedades e culturas ameríndias é hoje amplamente reconhecida, mas as informações sobre esse tópico concernentes aos povos Tukano do Noroeste Amazônico permanecem esparsas e dispersas. Tomando os Barasana e seus vizinhos como referência, este artigo apresenta alguns dados básicos quanto à onomástica tukano e discute similaridades entre as patrilinhagens tukano e os grupos de perfil "…
A courtship but not much of a marriage. Lévi-Strauss and British Americanist anthropology
To begin with 1 should say how ho noured 1 am to be able to render homage to Lévi-Strauss, who I personally consider to be not only the g reatest !il'ing anthropologist, but a lso the g reatest anthropologist, full stop.So it 's a great pleasure to be allowed to say some words about him.H owever, l'm afraid I'm the bringer of not particularly good news in that what 1 want to say to you is that my colleagues -my British colleagues -probably should…
The Substance of Northwest Amazonian Names
INTRODUCTION The high profile of names and naming systems (“onomastics”) is a distinctive hallmark of the ethnographic literature on lowland South America. Names were typically excluded from anthropological research on kinship – witness textbooks on the subject – but when it came to the complex social structures of the Gê and Bororo or the Kariera-like section systems of the Panoans, relations predicated on the transfer of names turned out to be …
Entre l'image et l'écrit. La politique tukano de patrimonialisation en Amazonie
Este artigo examina a política de patrimonialização Tukano na Amazônia colombiana, focando na interação complexa entre imagem e escrita. Hugh-Jones argumenta que os Tukano, em vez de simplesmente adotarem formas ocidentais de representação, as adaptaram e integraram em suas próprias práticas culturais e políticas. A pesquisa explora como fotografias, vídeos e documentos escritos são usados para negociar a identidade Tukano, reivindicar direitos t…
Analyses de sang
Traduit de l’anglais par Gérard Lenclud L’universel et le particulier Consacrer un volume de Terrain au sang, au sang tout court1, peut paraître relever de la gageure. Sujet obligé dès lors qu’il est question de la vie humaine, le sang constitue en effet un thème abordé dans un tel éventail de disciplines (physiologie, médecine, histoire, anthropologie, sciences des religions, etc.) et ayant suscité tant de travaux à la matière si riche qu’il sem…
L'objet livre
En concentrant leur attention sur le message, ou le contenu en général, des textes sacrés, les anthropologues ont souvent négligé le fait que les livres sont aussi des objets concrets. Les études de cas présentées ici, portant sur des sociétés dites tribales, invitent à s'intéresser aux matériaux dont sont façonnés les livres et à la façon dont les livres sont mis en relation avec d'autres objets, notamment rituels. Dans le même temps, la compara…
The Pleiades and Scorpius in Barasana Cosmology
This article examines the astronomical knowledge of the Barasana people of the Northwest Amazon, focusing on the significance of the Pleiades and Scorpius constellations in their cosmology and initiation rituals. Building upon Koch-Grünberg's early 20th-century ethnographic work, the author explores how these constellations serve as markers of time, influencing agricultural practices and shaping the Barasana understanding of the cosmos. The study…
Space-Time Transformations in the Upper Xingu and Upper Rio Negro
The multi-ethnic and multilingual complexes of the Upper Rio Negro and the Upper Xingu share common aspects that frequently emerge in ethnographies, including notions of descent, hierarchical social organization and ritual activities, as well as a preference for forms of exogamy and the unequal distribution of productive and ritual specialties and esoteric knowledge. In this article, the authors investigate how the people of both regions conceive…
Lévi-Strauss, Poronominaré and the Cicadas. A footnote to The Jealous Potter
Lévi-Strauss’s book The Jealous Potter is devoted to an exploration of an Amerindian moral philosophy preoccupied with myths about the regulation of entry into and exit from the digestive tract. Sloths and howler monkeys are exemplars of continence and incontinence. Sloths have both a feeble whistle as a voice and fastidious excretory habits – on the rare occasions that they defecate, they come down from the trees to leave rock-hard droppings in …
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