The xinguan leadership and their homes
From time to time, the Kalapalo and other upper Xingu people build special structures for their chiefs: large decorated houses for living chiefs, and special graves for deceased nobles - also conceived as their "houses". In this article I analyze how these structures keep a series of analo...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2013
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/11477 |
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| Summary: | From time to time, the Kalapalo and other upper Xingu people build special structures for their chiefs: large decorated houses for living chiefs, and special graves for deceased nobles - also conceived as their "houses". In this article I analyze how these structures keep a series of analogies with the chiefs' body model, trying to show how houses, graves and noble bodies aim, at different scales, a duality between humanity / consanguinity and animality / affinity. Based on a dialogue with Lévi-Strauss' formulations about the House, I argue that the Xinguan leadership is characterized by the synthesis of principles of unity and antagonism, whose objectification is a necessary part of the movement by which the Xingu groups differ and identify themselves in the regional system, providing the basis for the kinship process. |
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| ISSN: | 2595-315X |
