Broken words, furious wasps. How should we translate the sonic materiality of Araweté ritual singing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10555124
AutoresGuilherme Orlandini Heurich (University College London, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume106
Fascículo1
Páginas105-126
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal de la Société des Américanistes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-9174 • E-ISSN: 1957-7842
EditoraSociety of Americanists (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/jsa.18302
OpenAlexW3042193379
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas24

In Araweté ritual singing, the performance of oporahẽ songs is an exercise in downplaying referential meaning without the actual removal of the sounds of the language. These songs are performed in a way that effectively break words into syllables, which are recombined to form unusual and “meaningless” words. Phrased differently, a good amount of these songs’ “meaning” is not in the things to which they are referring. By looking at the effect of this displacement of syllables in the performance and in the written rendering of the Araweté’s oporahẽ songs, this paper addresses the role of translation in anthropological practice when referential meaning is not easy to access. Following recent approaches in linguistic anthropology, the paper argues that an attention to the materiality of sound and voice in Araweté ritual singing provides a framework for understanding the performance and translation of songs in indigenous Amazonia

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Indigenous · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing · Meaning (existential · Singing · Sociology · Communication · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices