DIMENSIONS OF BEAUTIFUL: DAILY LIFE AND VOCAL ART OF MBYA-GUARANI

Based on Joanna Overing´s concept of “aesthetics of production” (1991), which is the framework for a set of researches whose central analysis of the social indian Amazon brings to the fore the notions of “conviviality and daily life” (OVERING & PASSES, 2000), this paper intends to discuss the di...

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Author: Pissolato, Elizabeth
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2008
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repository:Revista Espaço ameríndio
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/3062
Online Access:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/3062
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:mbya-guarani
SOCIABILIDADE
estética
cotidiano
ritual
ARTE INDÍGENA
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Summary:Based on Joanna Overing´s concept of “aesthetics of production” (1991), which is the framework for a set of researches whose central analysis of the social indian Amazon brings to the fore the notions of “conviviality and daily life” (OVERING & PASSES, 2000), this paper intends to discuss the dimensions of “beauty” in the Mbya (Guarani) experience. It aims, on one hand, at approaching the multiple aspects of “doing beautifully” vesus “doing well” (-japo porã), which guides human behavior, and, on the other hand, thinking about the making and experience of “good/beautiful” in the context of music and ritual dancing.