“The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system

The article analyzes the sociopolitical dynamics of the xinguano multiethnic system, located in central-west Brazil, drawing from the logics revealed by sorcery practices. Based on fieldwork with the Aweti, a Tupi xinguano group, the analysis of this logic enables a description of the xinguano socio...

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Autor principal: Vanzolini, Marina; Museu Nacional, UFRJ
Formato: publishedVersion Artículo
Lenguaje:Español
Español
Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas 2016
Materias:
Upper Xingu
Aweti
Sorcery
Shamanism
Amerindian Politics
Alto Xingu
Hechicería
Chamanismo
Política Amerindia
Feitiçaria
Xamanismo
Política Ameríndia
Acceso en línea:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/644
http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/2112
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Español
topic Upper Xingu
Aweti
Sorcery
Shamanism
Amerindian Politics
Alto Xingu
Aweti
Hechicería
Chamanismo
Política Amerindia
Alto Xingu
Aweti
Feitiçaria
Xamanismo
Política Ameríndia
spellingShingle Upper Xingu
Aweti
Sorcery
Shamanism
Amerindian Politics
Alto Xingu
Aweti
Hechicería
Chamanismo
Política Amerindia
Alto Xingu
Aweti
Feitiçaria
Xamanismo
Política Ameríndia
Vanzolini, Marina; Museu Nacional, UFRJ
“The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
topic_facet Upper Xingu
Aweti
Sorcery
Shamanism
Amerindian Politics
Alto Xingu
Aweti
Hechicería
Chamanismo
Política Amerindia
Alto Xingu
Aweti
Feitiçaria
Xamanismo
Política Ameríndia
description The article analyzes the sociopolitical dynamics of the xinguano multiethnic system, located in central-west Brazil, drawing from the logics revealed by sorcery practices. Based on fieldwork with the Aweti, a Tupi xinguano group, the analysis of this logic enables a description of the xinguano sociocultural unity and of the groups that constitute it not only as historical products —something that has already been shown by the region’s ethnology— but also as continuously historical products, always to be recreated. The article’s key argument is that sorcery is the dark side, the unwanted effect of the process of becoming kin, a process central to the constitution of xinguano identity. Thus, sorcery would be what makes the xinguano people never seem perfectly xinguanos/humans to themselves.
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author Vanzolini, Marina; Museu Nacional, UFRJ
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author_sort Vanzolini, Marina; Museu Nacional, UFRJ
title “The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
title_short “The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
title_full “The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
title_fullStr “The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
title_full_unstemmed “The sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
title_sort “the sorcerer is not human”: considerations on sorcery and kinship for rethink the xinguano multiethnic system
publisher Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas
publishDate 2016
url http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/644
http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/2112
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