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I sapori dei tatuaggi nell'Amazzonia indigena

Mancuso Alessandro

subject

Tattoo Indigenous Amazonia fabrication of personhood symbolic classifications rituals of initiationSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline Demoetnoantropologiche

description

Through an analysis of some ethnographic examples (Matis, Akawaio,Guayaki, Cayabi), the chapter shows how in Indigenous Amazonia tattooing was connected in multiple ways to cultural conceptions regarding both the fabrication of the person and the classifications of world components, in which complex systems of correspondence between diverse domains organize people's experience and thought.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/336968