The (dis)empowerment of things in Amazonian cosmopolitics
An Anthropological Workshop at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, UEA, Norwich, UK
29 – 30 May 2009
A workshop convened by Dr Aristóteles Barcelos Neto, of the Sainsbury Research Unit, with speakers from Oxford, Paris, Berlin, St Andrews and Rio de Janeiro.
Discussants: Prof Steven Hooper (SRU) and Dr George Lau (SRU).
Programme
Friday |
29 May |
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14:00 |
Registration and welcome |
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14:20 |
Vanessa Elisa Grotti |
Contact expeditions, contagious influence and the politics of ordinary objects in northeastern Amazonia. |
15:00 |
Cristiane Lasmar |
Western goods and new female subjectivities in the upper rio Negro |
15:40 |
Marc Brightman |
Painted cosmos: the Wayana maluwana and embodiment of collectivity. |
16:20 |
Coffee break |
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16:40 |
Evelyn Schuler |
Appropriation in question: Waiwai meanderings |
17:20 |
Debate |
Discussant: Professor Steven Hooper (Sainsbury Research Unit) |
19:30 |
Dinner |
Saturday |
30 May |
|
09:00 |
Paolo Fortis |
What does General Douglas McArthur do among the Kuna of Panamá? Images and alterity in an Amerindian ontology. |
09:40 |
Cesar Gordon |
The objects of the whites: commodities and consumerism among the Xikrin-Kayapo Indians of Amazonia |
10:20 |
Coffee break |
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10:40 |
Aristoteles Barcelos Neto |
The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the (dis)empowerment of objects and chiefs |
11:20 |
Dimitri Karadimas |
Why do flutes and trumpets generate? Yurupari instruments in North-west Amazon mythology and ritual. |
12:00 |
Debate |
Discussant: Dr George Lau (Sainsbury Research Unit) |
The Shaman and the Jaguar mask - Amazonia
 
A Wauja Indian painting a ceremonial pot