Enactive Aesthetics

The Poetics of Hup Incantation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2286280
AutoresP Epps (0000-0002-7429-7885, The University of Texas at Austin), D P Ramos (0000-0002-3169-504X, Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Año2020
Volumen30
Número2
Páginas233-257
Fecha de publicación2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jola.12269
OpenAlexW3022888231
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas50

This paper explores the genre of incantation as it is practiced by the Hup (Makú) people of the northwest Amazon, and considers the challenges it brings to our conceptions of verbal art and its documentation. Hup incantation is fundamentally multifaceted, bringing to bear multiple performative events, voices, and audiences across ritual and social contexts. It is also both highly artistic and maximally enactive, such that its aesthetic and utilitarian features not only coexist, but also co-engender, each promoting the elaboration of the other. As we argue here, the incantation invites us to reexamine our understanding of poetics, and epitomizes the paradox of commensurability that challenges any documentation of language and culture

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