Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)

The Awá are a group of hunter–gatherers in transition to agriculture living in the Brazilian Amazon forest. After contact with mainstream society from the 1970s onwards, their culture, and especially their material culture, has undergone important transformations. Many traditional technologies and a...

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Autores principales: González Ruibal, Alfredo, Hernando, Almudena, Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier Inc 2010
Materias:
HUNTER-GATHERERS
SYMMETRICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY
IDENTITY
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/33549
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/33549
Aporte de:
Suquía - Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR, CONICET y UNC) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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topic HUNTER-GATHERERS
SYMMETRICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY
IDENTITY
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
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SYMMETRICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY
IDENTITY
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
González Ruibal, Alfredo
Hernando, Almudena
Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
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RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY
IDENTITY
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
description The Awá are a group of hunter–gatherers in transition to agriculture living in the Brazilian Amazon forest. After contact with mainstream society from the 1970s onwards, their culture, and especially their material culture, has undergone important transformations. Many traditional technologies and artifacts have been lost, especially those related to women. In this context, the persistence of arrow-making, although threatened by the spread of shotguns, is remarkable. During ethnoarchaeological work conducted between 2005 and 2009, we have been able to observe that the everyday making and use of arrows cannot be explained in neither functional nor symbolic terms alone. From our observations, we conclude that making and using arrows is indissolubly woven with the self of Awá men and, for that reason, we consider that only a relational-ontological approach can help us understand the deep relationship between men and arrows. Finally, we argue that the Awá case offers new possibilities to investigate technologies of the self in other non-modern societies.
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Hernando, Almudena
Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
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Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
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title Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
title_short Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
title_full Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
title_fullStr Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
title_full_unstemmed Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
title_sort ontology of the self and material culture: arrow-making among the awá hunter-gatherers (brazil)
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