Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences
Themes on Waiwai Social Being
Publication Year: 2005
Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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Preface and Acknowledgments
This book has been many years in the making. Perhaps, some would say, too many years. I can certainly attest to the fact that the manuscript has been rewritten in its entirety at least three times each rewrite the result of a return visit to the Waiwai. Contrary to...

From the Sutured Wound of Being
Even without the supposed ritual requirement of “torture” or imposition of “pain,” “the body mediates the acquisition of a knowledge” (Clastres 1989:180). It is an acquired knowledge about society constituting and sustaining itself in, on, and through the corporeal...

To the Mutability of Embodiment
Let us in a mischievous manner begin with Waiwai mythic registers. Not necessarily because myths can show us how Amerindian thought “expresses itself by means of a heterogeneous repertoire” (Lévi-Strauss 1974:17), a repertoire with a nevertheless extensive...

And Toward the Body Encompassed
A traditional Waiwai girl would have adorned herself with the white beaded keweyu apron and apomi (armband) beads after her first menses and ritual initiation into the age-grade of amas-komo. Tied around her waist, the sexually seductive beaded apron announced...

The Hidden Hazard of Generosity
We heard shepurï, the howler monkey. His aged cough cracked the canopy in prelude to an immense aria. Then, like a hollow wind, his prolonged plea took up air and surged in one single breath through the trees. In tones of primordial delight, his monstrous voice, his...

Grief and Shamanic Breath
From the other side of the village, from the tight cluster of houses near the river, a tremulous wave of heartfelt grief kept repeating itself. Trembling sounds of sadness engorged the damp air and congested the empty spaces between the dwellings. They lifted me...

The Plaited Design of Human Life
Waiwai cultural aesthetics emphasize balance and harmony in regard to the pleasures of residential space. A proper complement to life itself has to be produced. A necessary human sense of confidence about the forest and the village must be attained and factualness...

The Wayamnu Sentiment
The look in their eyes spoke tenderly of romance. Its voiceless words we could hear from our involuntary oblivion. Lost from the concentrated gaze of desire, we basked in the lyrical rendering of their deep affection. The gendered beauty of their entwined bodies achieved a...
E-ISBN-13: 9780803205062
E-ISBN-10: 0803205066
Publication Year: 2005
OCLC Number: 60712568
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