George Mentore
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Mentore |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Mentore |
| SIGNATURE | MENTORE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5597-7643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Afterword: The poetics of peccaries
This paper examines the poetics of Waiwai community life, informed by relations with white-lipped peccaries. It seeks to understand how political leadership and its presumption of hierarchy can be more about the collectively felt experience of joy than the necessity of superiority. Considering how bodily feelings relate to food and the contentment it provides, the paper demonstrates how the presence of peccaries contributes to leadership and the …
Sovereignty and the Power Aesthetics of Racism
This essay centers on the difficulty of modern sensibility in relinquishing ideas about sovereign power even after recognizing, objecting, and denouncing the use of its violent coercion. The discussion picks up at the point of wonderment about this difficulty being equivalent to that between language and subjectivity. It identifies the partisan work that normative aesthetics performs in convincing the oppressed that their sense of an inferior rac…
The "Uncontacted" as Third Infamy
This paper principally addresses the "problem" of anthropological thinking, that is, on how and why it remains with us and not with the peoples who do not subscribe to our contested regimes of truth. From my research on the topic, it appears we have not achieved any substantial moral progress on the question of exposure to indigenous otherness since the first European "contact." This failure is primarily due to our hardheaded rationalist refusal …
Of Vital Spirit and Precarious Bodies in Amerindian Socialities
The Voyages of Adriaan van Berkel to Guiana: Amerindian-Dutch Relationships in 17th-Century Guyana, written by Martijn van den Bel, Lodewijk Hulsman & Lodewijk Wagenaar (eds.)
The Master Art, the Haptic, and the Concorporate
Flow and Fixity: The Question of Intersubjectivity in Amazonia
Interview with Edith Turner
Edith Turner is one of the legends of anthropology of our times. The anthropologist who enters her home can't help feeling a mixture of awe, respect, and excitement contemplating the Ndembu masks that cover the walls. There are also very different artifacts from other places of the world, like Alaska. These are silent witnesses of the more than 60 years of research that Edith Turner has conducted, formerly in collaboration with Victor Turner, and…
Spiritual Translucency and Pornocratic Anthropology: Waiwai and Western Interpretations of a Religious Experience
This short article attempts to work within the craft of anthropology but, ultimately, seeks to do so against its historical intent to objectify. It describes and interprets a personal experience of sacred communion. In doing so, however, it argues that the success of any such processes eventually results in an obscene offence against the very experience of religious mystery
Guyanese Amerindian epistemology: The Gift From a Pacifist Insurgence
This article introduces the idea that Amerindian modes of knowledge are intellectual strategies for defeating racism in Guyana. It is suggested that coming to terms with radically different concepts of time and space provides the means for understanding viable alternatives of social being. The current invisibility of, or deleterious prejudice against, indigenous Amerindian renderings of social being serve merely as opportunities lost to a postcol…
Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Compelling and evocative, Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences reveals the vital cultural interconnections at the heart of a rain-forest Amerindian society. The Waiwai, who live in the remote interior of Guyana and in neighboring Brazil, follow a customary subsistence lifestyle built around swidden agriculture and hunting. How do the Waiwai experience and think about themselves and their place in the so-called modern world around them? The…
The Triumph and Sorrow of Beauty: Comparing the Recursive, Contrapuntal, and Cellular Aesthetics of Being
The principal assumption put forward in this paper will be that for the Waiwai the privileging of lateral visibility brings ideas about a fractal individual into association with recursive power, while for coastal Guyanese and U.S. societies, respectively, the privileging of axial visibility brings concepts about an autonomous individual into association with contrapuntal and cellular relations of power. It will be argued that, contrary to the Wa…
Introduction: Amerindian Modes of Knowledge
O triunfo e a dor da beleza: Comparando as Estéticas Recursiva, Contrapontística E Celular Do Ser
O principal argumento desenvolvido neste ensaio é o de que, para os Waiwai, o privilégio conferido à visibilidade lateral sugere idéias sobre um indivíduo fractal, associado ao poder recursivo, enquanto, para as sociedades do litoral da Guiana e dos Estados Unidos, o privilégio conferido à visibilidade axial sugere concepções sobre um indivíduo autônomo, associado a relações de poder contrapontísticas e celulares, respectivamente. Será argumentad…
The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath
Notting Hill in Carnival
Waiwai Women: The Basis of Wealth and Power
Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Compelling and evocative, Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences reveals the vital cultural interconnections at the heart of a rain-forest Amerindian society. The Waiwai, who live in the remote interior of Guyana and in neighboring Brazil, follow a customary subsistence lifestyle built around swidden agriculture and hunting. How do the Waiwai experience and think about themselves and their place in the so-called modern world around them? The…
Waiwai Women: The Basis of Wealth and Power
Interview with Edith Turner
Edith Turner is one of the legends of anthropology of our times. The anthropologist who enters her home can't help feeling a mixture of awe, respect, and excitement contemplating the Ndembu masks that cover the walls. There are also very different artifacts from other places of the world, like Alaska. These are silent witnesses of the more than 60 years of research that Edith Turner has conducted, formerly in collaboration with Victor Turner, and…
Guyanese Amerindian epistemology: The Gift From a Pacifist Insurgence
This article introduces the idea that Amerindian modes of knowledge are intellectual strategies for defeating racism in Guyana. It is suggested that coming to terms with radically different concepts of time and space provides the means for understanding viable alternatives of social being. The current invisibility of, or deleterious prejudice against, indigenous Amerindian renderings of social being serve merely as opportunities lost to a postcol…
Introduction: Amerindian Modes of Knowledge
O triunfo e a dor da beleza: Comparando as Estéticas Recursiva, Contrapontística E Celular Do Ser
O principal argumento desenvolvido neste ensaio é o de que, para os Waiwai, o privilégio conferido à visibilidade lateral sugere idéias sobre um indivíduo fractal, associado ao poder recursivo, enquanto, para as sociedades do litoral da Guiana e dos Estados Unidos, o privilégio conferido à visibilidade axial sugere concepções sobre um indivíduo autônomo, associado a relações de poder contrapontísticas e celulares, respectivamente. Será argumentad…
Waiwai Women: The Basis of Wealth and Power
Notting Hill in Carnival
The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath
Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Compelling and evocative, Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences reveals the vital cultural interconnections at the heart of a rain-forest Amerindian society. The Waiwai, who live in the remote interior of Guyana and in neighboring Brazil, follow a customary subsistence lifestyle built around swidden agriculture and hunting. How do the Waiwai experience and think about themselves and their place in the so-called modern world around them? The…
The Triumph and Sorrow of Beauty: Comparing the Recursive, Contrapuntal, and Cellular Aesthetics of Being
The principal assumption put forward in this paper will be that for the Waiwai the privileging of lateral visibility brings ideas about a fractal individual into association with recursive power, while for coastal Guyanese and U.S. societies, respectively, the privileging of axial visibility brings concepts about an autonomous individual into association with contrapuntal and cellular relations of power. It will be argued that, contrary to the Wa…
Introduction: Amerindian Modes of Knowledge
O triunfo e a dor da beleza: Comparando as Estéticas Recursiva, Contrapontística E Celular Do Ser
O principal argumento desenvolvido neste ensaio é o de que, para os Waiwai, o privilégio conferido à visibilidade lateral sugere idéias sobre um indivíduo fractal, associado ao poder recursivo, enquanto, para as sociedades do litoral da Guiana e dos Estados Unidos, o privilégio conferido à visibilidade axial sugere concepções sobre um indivíduo autônomo, associado a relações de poder contrapontísticas e celulares, respectivamente. Será argumentad…
Spiritual Translucency and Pornocratic Anthropology: Waiwai and Western Interpretations of a Religious Experience
This short article attempts to work within the craft of anthropology but, ultimately, seeks to do so against its historical intent to objectify. It describes and interprets a personal experience of sacred communion. In doing so, however, it argues that the success of any such processes eventually results in an obscene offence against the very experience of religious mystery
Guyanese Amerindian epistemology: The Gift From a Pacifist Insurgence
This article introduces the idea that Amerindian modes of knowledge are intellectual strategies for defeating racism in Guyana. It is suggested that coming to terms with radically different concepts of time and space provides the means for understanding viable alternatives of social being. The current invisibility of, or deleterious prejudice against, indigenous Amerindian renderings of social being serve merely as opportunities lost to a postcol…
Interview with Edith Turner
Edith Turner is one of the legends of anthropology of our times. The anthropologist who enters her home can't help feeling a mixture of awe, respect, and excitement contemplating the Ndembu masks that cover the walls. There are also very different artifacts from other places of the world, like Alaska. These are silent witnesses of the more than 60 years of research that Edith Turner has conducted, formerly in collaboration with Victor Turner, and…
Flow and Fixity: The Question of Intersubjectivity in Amazonia
The Master Art, the Haptic, and the Concorporate
The Voyages of Adriaan van Berkel to Guiana: Amerindian-Dutch Relationships in 17th-Century Guyana, written by Martijn van den Bel, Lodewijk Hulsman & Lodewijk Wagenaar (eds.)
Of Vital Spirit and Precarious Bodies in Amerindian Socialities
The "Uncontacted" as Third Infamy
This paper principally addresses the "problem" of anthropological thinking, that is, on how and why it remains with us and not with the peoples who do not subscribe to our contested regimes of truth. From my research on the topic, it appears we have not achieved any substantial moral progress on the question of exposure to indigenous otherness since the first European "contact." This failure is primarily due to our hardheaded rationalist refusal …
Afterword: The poetics of peccaries
This paper examines the poetics of Waiwai community life, informed by relations with white-lipped peccaries. It seeks to understand how political leadership and its presumption of hierarchy can be more about the collectively felt experience of joy than the necessity of superiority. Considering how bodily feelings relate to food and the contentment it provides, the paper demonstrates how the presence of peccaries contributes to leadership and the …
Sovereignty and the Power Aesthetics of Racism
This essay centers on the difficulty of modern sensibility in relinquishing ideas about sovereign power even after recognizing, objecting, and denouncing the use of its violent coercion. The discussion picks up at the point of wonderment about this difficulty being equivalent to that between language and subjectivity. It identifies the partisan work that normative aesthetics performs in convincing the oppressed that their sense of an inferior rac…
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