The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia

The literature on Amazonian ethnology is plenty of mythical serpents whose deeds are relatedto the origin of humanity, the invention and teaching of shamanic knowledge, artefacts, graphicmotifs and songs. If the mythological themes on Amazonian serpents have already been widelydescribed and analysed...

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Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles
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2016
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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5 Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Science
3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences
Upper Xingu
Cosmology
Art
Myth
Music
Alto Xingu
cosmologia
arte
mito
música
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spelling Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 InternacionalDerechos reservados - Universidad Nacional de Colombiahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles977fecbc-0d30-47ae-bd01-718021e586b23002019-07-03T03:24:38Z2019-07-03T03:24:38Z2016-12-31ISSN: 2145-5082https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/67050http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/68078/The literature on Amazonian ethnology is plenty of mythical serpents whose deeds are relatedto the origin of humanity, the invention and teaching of shamanic knowledge, artefacts, graphicmotifs and songs. If the mythological themes on Amazonian serpents have already been widelydescribed and analysed, the same cannot be said about the visual forms related to these themes.Many studies on Amazonian mythology left aside the very plastic aspects of material culture.These studies did not take into account that several features of the mythological themes areprecisely merged with the qualities of the visual styles. This article discusses some aspects ofthe conceptual imagination of Wauja (an Arawak speaking people of the Upper Xingu) materialculture through the analysis of a mythical character that explicitly exposes the intrinsic andsimultaneous musical and iconographic nature of weaving art.A literatura etnológica amazônica é povoada de serpentes mitológicas que estão na origem da humanidade, da criação e transmissão de conhecimentos xamânicos, de artefatos da cultura material, de desenhos e de canções. Se os temas mitológicos das serpentes amazônicas já estão amplamente caracterizados e analisados, o mesmo não pode ser dito sobre as formas visuais relacionadas aos mesmos. Muitos estudos da mitologia amazônica deixaram de lado os aspectos propriamente plásticos da cultura material, sem talvez dar-se conta que determinadas particularidades dos temas mito-cosmológicos estão precisamente fundidas nas qualidades dos estilos visuais. Este artigo discute alguns aspectos da imaginação conceitual da cultura material wauja (arawak do Alto Xingu) a partir da análise de um personagem mítico que expõe de modo explícito a natureza intrínseca e simultaneamente musical e iconográfica da arte do trançado.application/pdfspaUniversidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Amazonia - Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones (IMANI) - Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social (PPGAS)https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/55701Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Mundo AmazonicoMundo AmazonicoBarcelos Neto, Aristoteles (2016) The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia. Mundo Amazónico, 7 (1-2). pp. 115-136. ISSN 2145-50825 Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Science3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciencesUpper XinguCosmologyArtMythMusicAlto XingucosmologiaartemitomúsicaThe Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in AmazoniaArtículo de revistainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Texthttp://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ARTORIGINAL55701-325710-1-PB.pdfapplication/pdf1402306https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/bitstream/unal/67050/1/55701-325710-1-PB.pdfa40c6dfda23c1d8ce2f2deb46f789808MD51THUMBNAIL55701-325710-1-PB.pdf.jpg55701-325710-1-PB.pdf.jpgGenerated Thumbnailimage/jpeg6332https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/bitstream/unal/67050/2/55701-325710-1-PB.pdf.jpg005f662086a1b6b1392a8aaf5b817dedMD52unal/67050oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/670502024-05-19 23:11:28.239Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Colombiarepositorio_nal@unal.edu.co
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title The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia
spellingShingle The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia
5 Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Science
3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences
Upper Xingu
Cosmology
Art
Myth
Music
Alto Xingu
cosmologia
arte
mito
música
title_short The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia
title_full The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia
title_fullStr The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia
title_full_unstemmed The Wauja snake-basket: myth and the conceptual imagination of material culture in Amazonia
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dc.creator.fl_str_mv Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Barcelos Neto, Aristoteles
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3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences
topic 5 Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Science
3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences
Upper Xingu
Cosmology
Art
Myth
Music
Alto Xingu
cosmologia
arte
mito
música
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Cosmology
Art
Myth
Music
Alto Xingu
cosmologia
arte
mito
música
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