In a World of “Reversed” Bodies: Persons, Non-persons, and People - How the E’ñepá Indians Regard Otherness
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person, community, identity, otherness, subjectivity, Amazon, VenezuelaAbstract
This article analyzes the concept of Person and Non-Person among the E’ñepá (Panare) Indian people of the Venezuelan Amazon. A whole set of other concepts are linked to the notions of Person and Non-Person: humanity, subjectivity, the identity of beings, the idea of what is different and what is the same. These categories are not material in nature, and are rather processes and relations. The author analyzes the different types of Person occurring in the world of the E’ñepá, discusses the process by which humanity is created and sustained, how communities are formed and their security maintained, and examines the relationship of the E’ñepá to the wider world of Others.
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Butt Colson Audrey J., 1983–1984, A Comparative Survey of Contributions, [in:] Themes in Political Organization: the Caribs and their Neighbors (Antropológica 59–62), ed. A.J. Butt Colson, H.D. Heinen, Fund. La Salle. Inst. Caribe de Antropología y Sociología, Caracas, pp. 9–38
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Gow Peter, 1991, Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia, Clarendon, Oxford
Gow Peter, 2001, An Amazonian Myth and its History, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Howard Catherine V., 2001, Wrought Identities: the Waiwai Indians Search for the “Hidden Tribes” of Northern Amazonia (doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago)
Kairski Mariusz, Osoby wielorakie. O sposobach bycia w świecie Indian E’ñepá (Amazonia wenezuelska), [in:] W kręgu problemów ekologii kultury, ed. H. Chałacińska-Wiertelak, K. Kropaczewski, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, (under the process of publishing)
Kelly Luciani José A., 2001. Fractalidade e troca de perspectivas, Mana Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 95–132
Knauft Bruce M., 1999, From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
Knauft Bruce M., 2002, Exchanging the Past: a Rainforest World of before and after, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Kohn Eduardo O., 2007, How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement, American Ethnologist, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 3–24
Lévi-Strauss Claude, 1992, Smutek tropików, Wydawnictwo Opus, Łódź
Lévi-Strauss Claude, 1994, Opowieść o rysiu, Wydawnictwo Opus, Łódź
Londoño Sulkin Carlos David, 2004, Paths of Speech. Symbols, Sociality and Subjectivity among the Muinane of the Colombian Amazon, Language And Culture, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 173–195
Londoño Sulkin Carlos David, 2005, Inhuman Beings: Morality and Perspectivism among Muinane People (Colombian Amazon), Ethnos, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 7–30
Londoño Sulkin Carlos David, 2006, “Falas” instrumentais, moralidade e agência masculina entre os Muinane (Amazônia colombiana), Revista de Antropologia, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 319–356
Overing Joanna, 1983–1984, Elementary Structures of Reciprocity: a Comparative Note on Guianese, Central Brazilian, and North-West Amazon Socio-political Thought, [in:] Themes in Political Organization: the Caribs and their Neighbors (Antropológica 59–62), ed. A.J. Butt Colson, H.D. Heinen, Fund. La Salle. Inst. Caribe de Antropología y Sociología, Caracas, pp. 331–348
Overing Joanna, 1986, Images of Cannibalism, Death and Domination in a Non-violent Society, Journal de la Société des Américanistes, Vol. 72, pp. 133–156
Overing Joanna, 1993, Death and the Loss of Civilised Predation among the Piaroa of the Orinoco Basin, [in:] La remontée de l’Amazone: Anthropologie et Histoire des Sociétés Amazoniennes (Spec. ed. L’Homme 126–128), ed. P. Descola, A.-Ch. Taylor, EHESS, Paris, pp. 191–211
Overing Joanna, Passes Alan, ed. 2000, The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia, Routledge, London, New York
Overing Kaplan Joanna, 1977, Comments, Actes du XLII Congrès International des Américanistes, Vol. 2, pp. 387–394
Rosengren Dan, 2006, Corporeidade Matsigenka: uma realidade não biológica sobre noções de consciência e a constituição da identidade, Revista de Antropologia, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 133–163
Sahlins Marshall D., 2006, Wyspy historii, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków
Sahlins Marshall D., 2007, Jak myślą „tubylcy”. O kapitanie Cooku, na przykład, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków
Santos Granero Fernando, 2006, Vitalidades sensuais: modos não corpóreos de sentir e conhecer na Amazônia indígena, Revista de Antropologia, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 93–131
Santos Granero Fernando, 2009, Introduction: Amerindian Constructional Views of the World, [in:] The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood, ed. F. Santos Granero, Arizona University Press, Tucson, pp. 1–29
Seeger Anthony, Matta Roberto da, Viveiros de Castro Eduardo B., 1987, A construção da pessoa nas sociedades indígenas brasileiras, Sociedades indígenas e indigenismo no Brasil, red. J.P. de Oliveira Filho, Marco Zero, Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 11–30
Strathern Andrew, Steward Pamela J., 2000, Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History, Kent State University Press, Kent
Strathern Marilyns, 1992, Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies, Manchester University Press, Manchester
Strathern Marilyns, 1999, Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things, Athlone, London
Vilaça Aparecida M.N., 1992, Comendo como gente: formas do canibalismo Wari’, Editora da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro
Vilaça Aparecida M.N., 2002, Making Kin out of Others in Amazonia, Journal Of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, pp. 347–365
Vilaça Aparecida M.N., 2005, Chronically Unstable Bodies: Reflections On Amazonian Corporalities, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, pp. 445–464
Viveiros de Castro Eduardo B., 1995, Pensando o parentesco ameríndio, Antropologia do parentesco: estudos ameríndios, ed. E. B. Viveiros de Castro, Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 7–24
Viveiros de Castro Eduardo B., 1998, Cosmological deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, pp. 469–488
Viveiros de Castro Eduardo B., 2000, Atualização e contra-efetuação do virtual na socialidade amazônica: o processo de parentesco, Ilha, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 5–46
Viveiros de Castro Eduardo B., 2004, Exchanging Perspectives. The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies, Common Knowledge, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 463–484
Wagner Roy, 1981, The Invention of Culture, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Wagner Roy, 1986, Symbols that Stand for Themselves, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Whitehead Neil L., 2006, Plemiona tworzą państwa, państwa tworzą plemiona. Wojna a powstawanie kolonialnych plemion i państw w północno-wschodniej Ameryce Południowej 1492–1820, [in:] Sny, trofea, geny i zmarli. „Wojna” w społecznościach przedpaństwowych na przykładzie Amazonii – przegląd koncepcji antropologicznych, T. Buliński, M. Kairski, choice and edition, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, pp. 197–236
Zea Evelyn S., 2006, Antropologia enviesada: rodeios metafóricos e traduções impróprias Waiwai, Boletim Anual do Geri, Vol. 10
Zea Evelyn S., 2008, Genitivo da tradução, Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Ciências Humanas), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 65–77
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Kairski, M. (2009). In a World of “Reversed” Bodies: Persons, Non-persons, and People - How the E’ñepá Indians Regard Otherness. Ethnologia Polona, 115–134. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/638
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