Margherita Margiotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 88943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margherita Margiotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margherita |
| FAMILY NAME | Margiotti |
| SIGNATURE | MARGIOTTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Too many meanings: "Reading "Piro designs
This paper explores the notion of painting as meaningful action (Gow 1999) and highlights the productivity of the idea as emerging from, and dovetailing, different strands of thought on the nature of symbols and actions. Bringing together Lévi-Strauss’ intuition on the dynamism and generativity of graphic systems, phenomenological studies on meaning making, and ethnographic analyses of Amazonian theories of corporeality and sociality, Gow has sho…
Kinship in Anthropology
Clothing sociality: Materiality and the everyday among the Kuna of Panama
Kuna women's making and using molakana, the female blouses that have long intrigued visitors and collectors, provide evidence for discussing how the life cycle of persons and things function as aspects of one another. Kept in the main world museums and collected by private individuals, molakana have become famous worldwide. Studies of molakana have mainly focused on their significance as an index of Kuna identity or as wealth repositories linked …
Is There Fortune in Greater Amazonia
In this article, the authors explore the meanings of fortune among two peoples of Greater Amazonia. Luck, chance, and destiny play little role in the ethnographic record of this extensive region, and it is worth asking why this should be so. Two ethnographic cases are presented—the Kuna of Panama and the indigenous people of the Bajo Urubamba River in Peruvian Amazonia. The first describes what the ethnographer finds instead of elaborated discour…
Clothing sociality: Materiality and the everyday among the Kuna of Panama
Kuna women's making and using molakana, the female blouses that have long intrigued visitors and collectors, provide evidence for discussing how the life cycle of persons and things function as aspects of one another. Kept in the main world museums and collected by private individuals, molakana have become famous worldwide. Studies of molakana have mainly focused on their significance as an index of Kuna identity or as wealth repositories linked …
Is There Fortune in Greater Amazonia
In this article, the authors explore the meanings of fortune among two peoples of Greater Amazonia. Luck, chance, and destiny play little role in the ethnographic record of this extensive region, and it is worth asking why this should be so. Two ethnographic cases are presented—the Kuna of Panama and the indigenous people of the Bajo Urubamba River in Peruvian Amazonia. The first describes what the ethnographer finds instead of elaborated discour…
Clothing sociality: Materiality and the everyday among the Kuna of Panama
Kuna women's making and using molakana, the female blouses that have long intrigued visitors and collectors, provide evidence for discussing how the life cycle of persons and things function as aspects of one another. Kept in the main world museums and collected by private individuals, molakana have become famous worldwide. Studies of molakana have mainly focused on their significance as an index of Kuna identity or as wealth repositories linked …
Kinship in Anthropology
Too many meanings: "Reading "Piro designs
This paper explores the notion of painting as meaningful action (Gow 1999) and highlights the productivity of the idea as emerging from, and dovetailing, different strands of thought on the nature of symbols and actions. Bringing together Lévi-Strauss’ intuition on the dynamism and generativity of graphic systems, phenomenological studies on meaning making, and ethnographic analyses of Amazonian theories of corporeality and sociality, Gow has sho…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Amazon rainforest (1 works)