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La teoria degli schemi della pratica di Descola e il caso etnografico dei Wayùu

2022

The chapter traces Descola's interest in the collocation of the cosmology of the indigenous Wayùu people of the Guajira peninsula within his typology of ontologies and modes of identification. It also deals with the positions of those scholars who have proposed reinterpretations of Wayùu ethnography in the light of Descola's theory of the patterns of practice exposed in 'Beyond Nature et Culture'

Settore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheDescola Wayùu ethnography animism totemism analogism
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Parenté et organisation sociale chez les Wayùu. Retour sur la question

2021

Dans cet article, l’auteur revient sur certaines questions concernant le domaine de la parenté et de l’organisation sociale des Wayùu de la péninsule de La Guajira, dans la zone frontalière du nord de la Colombie et du Venezuela. Prenant pour point de départ le désaccord entre Goulet et Saler sur l’existence de catégories et de groupes de lignages et sur la place de ceux-ci dans le monde social des Wayùu, il opte pour le point de vue de Saler, à savoir que ces catégories peuvent être considérées non seulement dans les mythes au sujet de l’origine de la société wayùu, mais aussi dans les différents concepts qui réfèrent à l’ancestralité utérine commune d’un groupe de gens apparentés, ainsi q…

WayuuparentescodescendenciaWayùu people kinship descent Crow terminologies changes in kinship organizationSocial Sciences and HumanitiesWayùusociétés autochtones des basses-terres d’Amérique du SudCrow-Omaha terminologiesdescentsociedades indígenas de las Tierras bajas suramericanasterminologies crow-omahaAutomotive EngineeringSciences Humaines et SocialesascendanceIndigenous Lowland South America’s societiesSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline Demoetnoantropologicheterminologías Crow-Omahaparentékinship
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The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources

2022

In this paper I review and compare the main sources of information about the ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu, an Amerindian people inhabiting in the semiarid Guajira peninsula (Northern Colombia and Venezuela). For their peculiar mix of songs, dances, imitative plays and competitive games, inserted into a same festive framework, these festivals are particularly interesting to be studied as expressive metacommentaries (in the sense of Turner) of Wayùu social structures, cultural values and worldview. Nevertheless, they have not so far been the subject of a specific anthropological analysis, also because they ceased to be celebrated around the middle of the twentieth century, that is, b…

ritual framesperformances coreograficheWayùu ethnographyritual and playchoreographic performancesceremonial feastingsEducationUrban StudiesGender Studiesetnografia Wayùurituale e giocoAnthropologySettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline Demoetnoantropologichecerimoniali festivicornici ritualiWayùu ethnography ceremonial feastings ritual and play ritual frames choreographic performancesArchivio antropologico mediterraneo
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