To explore the utility of material culture to anthropological studies at the turn of the
century the authors organized a symposium entitled, “Artifacts and Society in Amazonia”
at the 50th International Congress of Americanists held in Warsaw on July 10 – 14, 2000.1
Present at the Warsaw symposium were representatives from Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico,
the United States, Spain, France, Germany, and Austria. It was truly an international symposium. Most participants also contributed papers to this volume. Unfortunately, Lelia
Delgado who presented a paper entitled “Entre la etnografía a la incertidumbre de los objetos artesanales de los indígenas del Sur de Venezuela” was unable to participate in the published volume.
The papers presented here are original contributions based upon the field investigations of the authors in various parts of lowland South America. They deal with the Cashinahua and Ticuna of Brazil, the Canelo and Secoya of Ecuador; the Miraña of Colombia;
the Yanomamï of Venezuela; and the Conibo/Shipibo of Peru. All of us are indebted to Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar, editor of Bonner Amerikanistische Studien (BAS), who made this
volume possible.
The premise of the symposium was that anthropologists often find that objects are
profoundly interwoven in the fabric of human life. We put the question to a series of anthropologists who are not normally associated with material culture studies. As might have
been expected, they responded in different ways.
Author(s): Thomas P. Myers; María Susana Cipolletti, (eds.)
Series: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien (BAS) ; 36
Publisher: Universität Bonn
Year: 2004
Language: English; Spanish
Pages: 190
City: Bonn
Tags: Amazonia; Amazonía; Cultura amazónica; Amazonian Culture; Amazonian Society; Sociedades amazónicas; Artifacts; Artefactos; Cultural Artifacts; Artefactos culturales; Cultura material; Material culture; Antropología amazónica; Amazonian Anthropology; Etnografía amazónica; Amazonian Ethnography
The Many Ramifications of Material Culture in Amazonia
Thomas P. Myers and María Susana Cipolletti ................................................................. 1
The Exchange of Women and the Value of Baskets:
a Study of the Yanomamï of Southern Venezuela
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder ............................................................................................... 11
The Mask Designs of the Ticuna Curt Nimuendaju Collection
Priscila Faulhaber ........................................................................................................... 27
Un objeto ritual: el chine o escudo de baile de los Ticuna
Jean-Pierre Goulard ........................................................................................................ 47
The Miraña Deer Skull: Mythological and Cognitive Implications
of a Miraña Communication Instrument (Colombian Amazon)
Dimitri Karadimas ........................................................................................................... 63
Kenan, the ritual stool: a reduced model of the Cashinahua person
during the Nixpupima rite of passage
Els Lagrou ........................................................................................................................ 95
Armados hasta los dientes: Los trofeos de dientes humanos
en la Amazonía
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil .................................................................................................... 115Looking Inward: the Florescence of Conibo/Shipibo Art
During the Rubber Boom
Thomas P. Myers ............................................................................................................ 127
Objetos del mundo superior y del inframundo y la legitimación
del poder Shamánico Secoya (Ecuador y Perú)
María Susana Cipolletti ................................................................................................. 143
Artefactos, género e integración comunitaria entre los
Quichuas-Canelos de la Amazonía ecuatoriana
Julián López García ..................................................................................................... 157
La cerámica de las mujeres canelo (Ecuador) – canto y objeto
Luz María Lepe Lira ...................................................................................................... 183
