Cultural Change and Identity in Mapoyo Burial Practice in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela

Bibliographic Data

ID2740302
AuthorsFranz Scaramelli, Kay Tarble
Year2000
Volume47
Issue3-4
Pages705-729
Publication date2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-705
PMID18350688
OpenAlexW2107306483
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited20

Transformations in Mapoyo burial practice since the eighteenth century are documented in archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence and correlated to the ongoing process of contact. In this article we discuss the postcontact history of the Mapoyo, as manifested in attitudes of aperture and resistance that emerged under different historical conditions and that are clearly expressed in the distribution and modes of burial practice. Funerary remains serve as indicators of the changes in cultural response to the contact situation, and as such they have played an active role in the definition of ethnic identity through time

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural identity · Cultural practice · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Identity (music · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Ecology · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American history and culture · Politics and Society in Latin America

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