Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

Anthropological Perspectives

Ernst Halbmayer, Anne Goletz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-006-0 (ISBN)

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Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America. The volume shows how people create and reinforce their conditions of being by employing different genres of transgression and by creatively shifting contexts of significance. Local socio-cosmic orders, the interrelation of creative genres (myth, verbal art, song, ritual, and handicrafts), and their changing frames of reference (from communal celebrations to wider political and commercial realms) demonstrate the relational, generative, and processual quality of Amerindian creativity.

Ernst Halbmayer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, University of Marburg, Germany. Among his recent publications are Indigenous Modernities in South America (Sean Kingston, 2018), and Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica: Toward an Anthropological Understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area (Routledge, 2020).

List of Figures, Ilustrations, Tables and Maps

Introduction

Anne Goletz and Ernst Halbmayer

Part I. Creation and the Original Conditions of Being

Chapter 1. Creation, Creativity, and the Times of Origin: The Multiplicity of Transformative and Transcreational Processes in Amazonia and the Isthmo-Colombian Area

Ernst Halbmayer

Chapter 2. The Maize Bringer’sCreative Potentials: How People and Maize Co-actively Ensure the Continuous Existence of Maize in the Yukpa Territory of Sokorpa, Northern Colombia

Anne Goletz

Chapter 3. What Does it Take to Be a Singer? Ritual and Creativity among the Pume People of Venezuela

Silvana Saturno

Part II. Creating and the Genres of Transmutation

Chapter 4. How to Charge a Voice with Power? Transmuting Non-Human Creativity into Vocal Creations in the Western Amazon

Bernd Brabec

Chapter 5. From the Songs without Names to the Stories inside a Name: On the Poetic Creation of Normativity among the Ayoreo from the Northern Paraguayan Chaco

Alfonso Otaegui

Chapter 6. The Chant-Owner and His Music: Musical Creativity and Verbal Artistry in the Ritual Life of an Amazonian Community

Jonathan D. Hil

Chapter 7. How to Transform the World(s): Generating Transactive Timescapes through Myths, Songs, and Magic Formulas in the Guianas

Matthias Lewy

Part III. Creativity and Shifting the Context of Signification

Chapter 8. Basketry, Mythology, and Shamanism in the Amerindian Cultures of Venezuela: An Ancestral “Art” Facing Innovation

Marie Claude Mattei Muller

Chapter 9. Yurupari’s Disappearance: Women’s Laughter and Organology without Musical Instruments in Vaupés

Juan Carlos Castrillón Vallejo

Conclusion

Ernst Halbmayer and Anne Goletz

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-006-6 / 1805390066
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-006-0 / 9781805390060
Zustand	Neuware