Lines and circles: images of time in a Panara village
<p>This article is an analysis of dual organization from the perspective of Panará people in central Brazil. It is suggested that the circular layout of villages with a central men's house can be read as instantiating distinct forms of temporality such that recursive transformation on the...
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| description | <p>This article is an analysis of dual organization from the perspective of Panará people in central Brazil. It is suggested that the circular layout of villages with a central men's house can be read as instantiating distinct forms of temporality such that recursive transformation on the periphery is opposed to innovative transformation at the centre. Furthermore, I suggest that the tendency for innovation at the centre makes this the privileged space in which to encounter and incorporate people and things which come from the outside, beyond the circle of village houses. In this sense it may be more correct, as Lévi-Strauss argued, to think of binary opposition as being a form of triadic organization. Finally, I argue that binary ways of organizing the world among the Panará are not based on the opposition of nature to culture but rather on the encounter between Panará and enemy-others. As these categories have changed through history, so ways of instantiating the difference between selves and others among the Panará have also transformed. / Cet article est une analyse de l'organisation duelle depuis la perspective du peuple Panará dans le Brésil Central. Il est suggéré ici que la disposition circulaire des villages et l'emplacement central de la maison réservée aux hommes peuvent être interprétés comme étant des formes distinctes de temporalité de façon à ce que la transformation récursive à la périphérie s'oppose à la transformation innovante au centre. En outre, je suggère que la tendance à l'innovation du centre en fasse l'espace privilégié des rencontres et de l'incorporation des gens et des choses venant de l'extérieur, au-delà du cercle des maisons du village. En ce sens, il serait peut-être plus correct, comme l'affirmait Lévi Strauss, de penser à l'opposition binaire comme étant une forme d'organisation triadique. Enfin, je crois que les modes binaires d'organisation du monde parmi les Panará ne sont pas basés sur une opposition nature/culture, mais davantage sur la rencontre entre le Panará et l'autre/l'ennemi. Ces catégories ayant changé au cours de l'histoire, les modes de rapprochement entre le soi et les autres ont aussi évolué.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d1682821-4f0c-47ea-81d9-45b3498403312022-03-27T07:56:45ZLines and circles: images of time in a Panara village Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d1682821-4f0c-47ea-81d9-45b349840331Social anthropologyEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetWiley2003Ewart, E<p>This article is an analysis of dual organization from the perspective of Panará people in central Brazil. It is suggested that the circular layout of villages with a central men's house can be read as instantiating distinct forms of temporality such that recursive transformation on the periphery is opposed to innovative transformation at the centre. Furthermore, I suggest that the tendency for innovation at the centre makes this the privileged space in which to encounter and incorporate people and things which come from the outside, beyond the circle of village houses. In this sense it may be more correct, as Lévi-Strauss argued, to think of binary opposition as being a form of triadic organization. Finally, I argue that binary ways of organizing the world among the Panará are not based on the opposition of nature to culture but rather on the encounter between Panará and enemy-others. As these categories have changed through history, so ways of instantiating the difference between selves and others among the Panará have also transformed. / Cet article est une analyse de l'organisation duelle depuis la perspective du peuple Panará dans le Brésil Central. Il est suggéré ici que la disposition circulaire des villages et l'emplacement central de la maison réservée aux hommes peuvent être interprétés comme étant des formes distinctes de temporalité de façon à ce que la transformation récursive à la périphérie s'oppose à la transformation innovante au centre. En outre, je suggère que la tendance à l'innovation du centre en fasse l'espace privilégié des rencontres et de l'incorporation des gens et des choses venant de l'extérieur, au-delà du cercle des maisons du village. En ce sens, il serait peut-être plus correct, comme l'affirmait Lévi Strauss, de penser à l'opposition binaire comme étant une forme d'organisation triadique. Enfin, je crois que les modes binaires d'organisation du monde parmi les Panará ne sont pas basés sur une opposition nature/culture, mais davantage sur la rencontre entre le Panará et l'autre/l'ennemi. Ces catégories ayant changé au cours de l'histoire, les modes de rapprochement entre le soi et les autres ont aussi évolué.</p> |
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| title | Lines and circles: images of time in a Panara village |
| title_full | Lines and circles: images of time in a Panara village |
| title_fullStr | Lines and circles: images of time in a Panara village |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lines and circles: images of time in a Panara village |
| title_short | Lines and circles: images of time in a Panara village |
| title_sort | lines and circles images of time in a panara village |
| topic | Social anthropology |
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