The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia
The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia. This article is an ethnography of the Kanamari concept of -warah, a word that simultaneously means « living body », « owner » and « chief ». It aims to establish the relationship between these meanings through a focus on the replica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/11332 |
| Summary: | The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia. This article is an ethnography of the Kanamari concept of -warah, a word that simultaneously means « living body », « owner » and « chief ». It aims to establish the relationship between these meanings through a focus on the replication of the -warah at different scales: from the body of individual persons, through the village chief, into the chief of a river basin. It is argued that each of these positions implies the capacity to familiarize its inverse through acts of feeding. In this way, and respectively, the soul, co-resident villagers and the people of a subgroup are made into component parts of their -warah in a process that is analogous to acts of familiarization that have been described for other parts of Amazonia. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |