CHRONICALLY UNSTABLE BODIES: REFLECTIONS ON AMAZONIAN CORPORALITIES
Abstract
Based on ethnographic material relating to the Wari’ (Rondônia, Brazil), this article questions some of the presuppositions concerning native conceptions of the body present in contemporary anthropological literature by exploring a central dimension of Amazonian corporality – one that has been little explored in ethnographic works on the region – its unstable and transformational character. This dimension only becomes evident when our analysis presumes an expanded notion of humanity – first called to our attention by authors such as Lévy‐Bruhl and Leenhardt – that includes not only those beings we think of as humans, but also other subjectivities such as animals and spirits. Central to the problem's development is a discussion of the relations between body and soul, humanity and corporality.
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Aparecida M. N. Vilaça (2005). CHRONICALLY UNSTABLE BODIES: REFLECTIONS ON AMAZONIAN CORPORALITIES. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00245.x
@article{n2005chronically,
title = {CHRONICALLY UNSTABLE BODIES: REFLECTIONS ON AMAZONIAN CORPORALITIES},
author = {Vilaça, Aparecida M. N.},
year = {2005},
journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute},
doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00245.x}
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