Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia

This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities...

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Reddish, Jenny
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2013
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Anthropology
Sensorial Anthropology
Amazonian Ethnography
Northwest Coast Ethnography
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
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dc.title.spa.fl_str_mv Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
title Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
spellingShingle Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
Anthropology
Sensorial Anthropology
Amazonian Ethnography
Northwest Coast Ethnography
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
title_short Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
title_full Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
title_fullStr Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
title_full_unstemmed Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
title_sort Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Reddish, Jenny
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Reddish, Jenny
dc.subject.proposal.spa.fl_str_mv Anthropology
Sensorial Anthropology
Amazonian Ethnography
Northwest Coast Ethnography
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
topic Anthropology
Sensorial Anthropology
Amazonian Ethnography
Northwest Coast Ethnography
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
Body ornaments
Northwest Coast
Suya
Kayapo
sensorial anthropology
description This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities). Drawing on the recent ‘sensorial turn’ within anthropology, I suggest an approach which goes beyond considerations of the symbolism of body ornaments and analyses how the infliction of pain they involve can be manipulated to serve social ends at a local level. Also discussed is the use of labrets within global ‘mediascapes’ (Appadurai 1996) by Kayapo and Northwest Coast groups in the context of self-representation and the politicization of ‘culture’ (Wright 1998).
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