ISBN:
9780520071858
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version To Weave and Sing : Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rainforest
DDC:
306.089984
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
To Weave and Sing is the first in-depth analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who live in the dense rain forest of the upper Orinoco. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have succeeded in maintaining the integrity and unity of their culture, resisting the devastating effects of acculturation that have befallen so many neighboring groups. Yet their success must be attributed to more than natural barriers of rapids and waterfalls, to more than lack of "contact" with our "modern" world. The ethnographic history recount
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION: The Syntax of Culture; 2. THE PEOPLE; "The Ones of This Earth"; Ihuruña, "The Headwater Place"; Ethnographic History; 3. CULTURE AND ETHOS: A Play of Forces; The House; Economic Activities; The Dual Nature of Reality; The Garden; The Geography of the Body; Ahachito Hato, "The New Person"; The Six Souls; The First People; The Manipulation of the Invisible; Magic Herbs; Body Paints; Singing; 4. "ALL THINGS MADE"; Tidi'uma; A Cycle of Baskets; Marriage; The Tradition; The Poetics of Basketry; 5. ORIGIN AND DESIGN
Description / Table of Contents:
Myths of the Origins of ArtifactsThe Devil's Face Paint; The Designs; Shifting Fields; 6. THE FORM OF CONTENT; Yododai; Edodicha; Fasting; The Fast Baskets; Weed Out Mawadi: The Tingkui Yechamatojo; 7. TO WEAVE THE WORLD; A GALLERY OF BASKETS; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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