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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-368cd63f0655414c81b4b1dcff0dbc592022-12-22T04:07:46ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422010-06-0196116919210.4000/jsa.11332The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western AmazoniaLuiz CostaThe 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.http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/11332bodyfamiliarizationfeedingownership |
| spellingShingle | Luiz Costa The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia Journal de la Société des Américanistes body familiarization feeding ownership |
| title | The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia |
| title_full | The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia |
| title_fullStr | The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia |
| title_short | The Kanamari Body-Owner. Predation and Feeding in Western Amazonia |
| title_sort | kanamari body owner predation and feeding in western amazonia |
| topic | body familiarization feeding ownership |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/11332 |
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