À l’occasion de la venue à Paris de Bruna Franchetto et Alessandro Lupo, le séminaire EREA et le GDRI RITMO sont heureux de vous inviter à une séance sur les discours rituels amérindiens, qui comprendra les deux interventions suivantes :
Ritual discourse, historical narratives, culturally built identities and landscapes in a Southern Amazonian society
Bruna Franchetto - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CNPq
At the edge of Southern Amazon (Brazil), on the eastern tributaries of the Upper Xingu river, 600 Kuikuro speak a dialect of a language that is one of the two Southern branches of the Carib family, in the regional multiethnic and multilingual system known as « Upper Xingu ». During the last days of egitsü, the intertribal ritual celebrating dead chiefs, the main chief of the village which receives the invited villages performs a formal discourse called anetü itaginhu (chief’s speech). Each local group celebrates its own identity before the others chanting a gallery of founder chiefs, including White people and references to old sites. The exegesis of the anetü itaginhu links its personages and images to orally transmitted akinhá (narratives). This presentation will briefly explore: (i) the co-indexation between different and extremely endangered verbal genres; (ii) how this « links » are effective as explanations of an almost obscure formal discourse; (iii) if it is possible to speak of « historical » narratives as a sub-genre distinct from « mythical » narratives, as distinct regimes of collective memories in an Amazonian oral tradition; (iv) how narratives, ritual speeches and memories are rooted in the landscape as lived territory.
L’efficacité des mots dans les rituels de guérison chez les Nahuas de la Sierra de Puebla : théories indigènes et interprétations anthropologiques
The EREA (Enseignement et recherche en ethnologie amérindienne) seminar is a flexible discussion space open to the public that aims to stimulate exchanges between Centre researchers, University of Paris Nanterre Department of Anthropology, and invitees from elsewhere. It serves as both a focal point for reflection on ongoing Americanist research and as a platform for doctoral students, post-docs, and associate researchers’ work.
Under the form of individual presentations, thematic cycles, or half-days of study, the seminar provides a complementay research space for meetings, namely the Séminaire d’anthropologie américaniste (SAA) and the Groupe d’enseignement et de recherche sur les Mayas et la Mésoamérique (GERM).
Some sessions are available in replay on Canal U's Erea channel.
Organisation : Valentina Vapnarsky, Philippe Erikson andVincent Hirtzel
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