Objects of Power, People of Prestige: The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the Wauja cosmopolitics
From puberty to old age, a Xinguano aristocrat will participate in, help perform and sponsor dozens of intra and inter-village rituals. These rituals, in turn, lie at the root of the production and maintenance of a singular type of political status (amunaw) whose source of power is both external (p...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/28094 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-027&d=article28094oai |
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Upper Xingu region; rituals of production; Amazonian cosmology; political prestige; ritual objects. antropologia Alto Xingu; rituais de produção; cosmologia amazônica; prestígio político; objetos rituais. |
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Upper Xingu region; rituals of production; Amazonian cosmology; political prestige; ritual objects. antropologia Alto Xingu; rituais de produção; cosmologia amazônica; prestígio político; objetos rituais. Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles; University of East Anglia Objects of Power, People of Prestige: The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the Wauja cosmopolitics |
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Upper Xingu region; rituals of production; Amazonian cosmology; political prestige; ritual objects. antropologia Alto Xingu; rituais de produção; cosmologia amazônica; prestígio político; objetos rituais. |
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From puberty to old age, a Xinguano aristocrat will participate in, help perform and sponsor dozens of intra and inter-village rituals. These rituals, in turn, lie at the root of the production and maintenance of a singular type of political status (amunaw) whose source of power is both external (pathogenic/shamanic spirits-monsters) and internal (family networks of ritual work). The relation between these sources results in the production of ritual objects that also work to boost the prestige of the amunaw. However, it is only in their funerary rituals that the glory of the amunaw can be fully celebrated. After his death, what remains of the personified power of an amunaw are the names to which he conferred fame. In this article I attempt to show how this ritual system can maximize or minimize the amunaw’s power and its transmission to his descendants. |
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Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles; University of East Anglia |
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Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles; University of East Anglia |
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Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles; University of East Anglia |
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Objects of Power, People of Prestige: The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the Wauja cosmopolitics |
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Objects of Power, People of Prestige: The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the Wauja cosmopolitics |
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Objects of Power, People of Prestige: The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the Wauja cosmopolitics |
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Objects of Power, People of Prestige: The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the Wauja cosmopolitics |
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objects of power, people of prestige: the biographical temporality of xinguano rituals and the wauja cosmopolitics |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
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2012 |
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http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/28094 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-027&d=article28094oai |
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