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Indian baskets --- Yecuana Indians --- Yecuana baskets. --- Religion. --- Yekuana Indians --- Basket making --- Religion and mythology --- Indians of South America --- Venezuela
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baskets [containers] --- weaving --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Latin America --- Yecuana Indians --- Basket making --- Yekuana (Indiens) --- Vannerie --- Indians of South America --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Social life and customs --- Religion --- Moeurs et coutumes --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Etnografie: Amerika
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Popular culture --- Festivals --- Folklore --- Culture populaire --- Fêtes --- Performance --- Interprétation --- Venezuela --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Azië
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To Weave and Sing is the first in-depth analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who live in the dense rain forest of the upper Orinoco. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have succeeded in maintaining the integrity and unity of their culture, resisting the devastating effects of acculturation that have befallen so many neighboring groups. Yet their success must be attributed to more than natural barriers of rapids and waterfalls, to more than lack of "contact" with our "modern" world. The ethnographic history recounted here includes not only the Spanish discovery of the Yekuana but detailed indigenous accounts of the entire history of Yekuana contact with Western culture, revealing an adaptive technique of mythopoesis by which the symbols of a new and hostile European ideology have been consistently defused through their incorporation into traditional indigenous structures.The author's initial point of departure is the Watunna, the Yekuana creation epic, but he finds his principal entrance into this mythic world through basketry, focusing on the eleborate kinetic designs of the round waja baskets and the stories told about them. Guss argues that the problem of understanding Yekuana basketry is the problem of understanding all traditional art forms within a tribal context, and critiques the cultural assumptions inherent in our systems of classification. He demonstrates that the symbols woven into the baskets function not in isolation but collectively, as a powerful system cutting across the entire culture.To Weave and Sing addresses all Yekuana material culture and the greater reality it both incorporates and masks, discerning a unifying configuration of symbols in chapters on architectural forms, the geography of the body, and the use of herbs, face paints, and chants. A narrow view of slash-and-burn gardens as places of mere subsistence is challenged by Guss's portrait of these exclusively female spaces as systematic inversions of the male world, "the sacred turned on its head." Throughout, a wealth of narrative and ritual materials provides us with the closest approximation we have to a native exegesis of these phenomena. What we are offered here is a new Poetics of Culture, ethnography not as a static given but as a series of shifting fields, wherein culture (and our image of it) is constantly recreated in all of its parts, by all of its members.
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If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the ""uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive,"" and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings.
Festivals. --- Festivals - Venezuela. --- Folklore. --- Popular culture. --- Popular culture - Venezuela. --- Venezuela-- Social conditions-- 1958-. --- Popular culture --- Festivals --- Folklore --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Conditions --- Social Sciences --- Folk-lore, Venezuelan --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Performance --- Venezuela --- Social conditions
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