Burst of Breath: Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Overture 1 Jonathan D. Hill and Jean-Pierre Chaumeil first movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication 1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes 49 Jean-Pierre Chaumeil 2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians 69 Rafael José de Menezes Bastos 3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music 93 Jonathan Hill 4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual 123 Nicolas Journet 5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World 147 Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez 6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of Secrecy 171 Marcelo Fiorini second movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations 7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: “Sacred” Musical Instruments in the Guianas? 201 Marc Brightman 8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana 219 Stephanie W. Alemán 9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes 239 Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade 10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes 257 Maria Ignez Cruz Mello 11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region 277 Ulrike Prinz 12. An “Inca” Instrument at a “Nawa” Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context 301 Javier Ruedas 13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity 325 Robin Wright coda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives 14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred? 357 Claudia Augustat 15. Mystery Instruments 371 Jean-Michel Beaudet Contributors 395 Index 401 ...