IMAGE AGAINST PURE REPRESENTATION: BODIES, SOULS AND COSMOPOTICS IN THE AMAZON
A close look to the notion of soul as presented in a variety of ethnographies about south american lowland societies reveals us a curious relation between ‘soul’ and ‘image’, describing it as corporal ‘images’ which can set relations with non-humans alterity forms. These relations, as we commonly kn...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Espaço ameríndio |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/20873 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/20873 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | alma imagem Amazônia perspectivismo ameríndio. Etnologia Indígena soul image Amazonia amerindian perspectivism. |
| Resumo: | A close look to the notion of soul as presented in a variety of ethnographies about south american lowland societies reveals us a curious relation between ‘soul’ and ‘image’, describing it as corporal ‘images’ which can set relations with non-humans alterity forms. These relations, as we commonly know, are riskful, due to the possibility of a soul being aggressed or captured by those non-humans beings. This, of course, by only one side. By the other, those same relations with non-human beings have a special deal in shamanism and naming-rituals. This essay aims, thus, to amplify comprehension of which type of image might be this one called ‘soul’, and how it could be understood as a specific non-representational image. |
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