This thesis presents an ethnography of a linguistically isolated community living in the andean foothill of Central Bolivia. It investigates the dialectic between the mythological narrative through which the society defines itself as a 'we' provided with a specific sollective self, on the one hand, and the ritual practices of self-fulfillment it develops on the other hand. The mythological aspect of the dialectic is explored first of all through analysis of the Tiri creator deity narrative, an imperfect master of humanity who unwittingly abandoned those he iontended to make immortal. This narrative highlights how important is the experience of incompleteness and dereliction in the representation of the yuracare collective self. The principa...
This paper focuses on the Origin Myth of the Murui, a Witotoan group from Northwest Amazonia
This thesis uses an ethnographic study to explore the cultural logic that shapes the livelihoods of ...
Cette étude ethnographique aborde la question des définitions de soi et d'autrui au sein de villages...
This thesis presents an ethnography of a linguistically isolated community living in the andean foot...
Proposant une ethnographie des Yuracaré, une population de langue isolée du piémont andin bolivien, ...
Abstract Personhood and human-spirit relations among the Yuracaré of the Bolivian Amazon. By Annica...
Cette thèse explore les cérémonies composant les bals rituels des Murui-Muina (Uitoto), peuple indie...
« Les Shipibo nous doivent un jeu !» - disent les Kakataibo en insistant sur le caractère contraigna...
Ce travail porte sur les relations entre les Baniwa et les Koripako du Nord-Ouest amazonien (Brésil)...
The Macha Indians can be historically related to one of the dominant groupings within the pre-Incaic...
For some years now, the Trumai people (from the Brazilian Amazon) have endeavored to revive the « Ja...
What does it mean to become an other ? Shamanism and interethnic contact in Brazilian Amazonia Juxta...
Não disponívelThis thesis explores the interface of social and cosmogonic thought in an indigenous s...
The Nükak are a people of hunters and gatherers in the Colombian Amazon who call themselves Nükak ba...
La thèse décrit les pratiques épistémiques des populations rurales aymara et quechua de la municipal...
This paper focuses on the Origin Myth of the Murui, a Witotoan group from Northwest Amazonia
This thesis uses an ethnographic study to explore the cultural logic that shapes the livelihoods of ...
Cette étude ethnographique aborde la question des définitions de soi et d'autrui au sein de villages...
This thesis presents an ethnography of a linguistically isolated community living in the andean foot...
Proposant une ethnographie des Yuracaré, une population de langue isolée du piémont andin bolivien, ...
Abstract Personhood and human-spirit relations among the Yuracaré of the Bolivian Amazon. By Annica...
Cette thèse explore les cérémonies composant les bals rituels des Murui-Muina (Uitoto), peuple indie...
« Les Shipibo nous doivent un jeu !» - disent les Kakataibo en insistant sur le caractère contraigna...
Ce travail porte sur les relations entre les Baniwa et les Koripako du Nord-Ouest amazonien (Brésil)...
The Macha Indians can be historically related to one of the dominant groupings within the pre-Incaic...
For some years now, the Trumai people (from the Brazilian Amazon) have endeavored to revive the « Ja...
What does it mean to become an other ? Shamanism and interethnic contact in Brazilian Amazonia Juxta...
Não disponívelThis thesis explores the interface of social and cosmogonic thought in an indigenous s...
The Nükak are a people of hunters and gatherers in the Colombian Amazon who call themselves Nükak ba...
La thèse décrit les pratiques épistémiques des populations rurales aymara et quechua de la municipal...
This paper focuses on the Origin Myth of the Murui, a Witotoan group from Northwest Amazonia
This thesis uses an ethnographic study to explore the cultural logic that shapes the livelihoods of ...
Cette étude ethnographique aborde la question des définitions de soi et d'autrui au sein de villages...