Introduction: The Alchemical Person
| Main Authors: | Rahman, Elizabeth, Echeverri, Juan Alvaro |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2015
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3780465 |
Daftar Isi:
- This Special Issue of Tipiti oscillates around the theme of alchemy, a useful way for thinking about Amerindian persons and the societies in which they live. Taking as its key coordinates indig- enous epistemologies (McCallum 1996; Santos-Granero and Mentore 2006) and the ethno- graphic fact of person-making (Conklin and Morgan 1996) as a moral project that allows people to live well (Overing and Passes 2000; Londoño-Sulkin 2012; Echeverri 2013), this Special Issue delves further into the classic Amerindian themes of transformation and transmutation. Alchemy provides the forge for recasting three classic themes: 1) the body, as a site of constitutive relations (e.g. Rival 2005a); 2) food, and its processing, as a social act (see Rivière 1987; C. Hugh-Jones 1979a; 1979b); and 3) the articulation of personhood at the frontiers of the nation-state (see Clastres 1977). The People of the Center (Uitoto and Muinane) of the Colombian Amazon, Shipibo-Conibo of the Western Amazonia, Makushi of Guyana, Piaroa of the Colombo-Venezuelan border, Yanomami of Venezuela, Xié River dwellers (Warekena) and Hupd’äh of the Upper Rio Negro basin, Wayana of Brazil, as well as the Panamanian Emberá and the piedmont Apoleños, provide the ethnographic loci of these enquiries.
- Introduction to the special issue "The Alchemical Person" of the SALSA journal Tipiti.