Invisible Paths - songs, subjects and traditional knowledge among the Yekuana

• Grant number: 12/23866-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
• Grantee: Majoi Favero Gongora
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to study forms of oral expressions and circulation of knowledge associated with the concept wätunnä, an ye'kuana term often translated as "traditional". According to the existing ethnographies of the Yekuana groups, these knowledge emerge intensively during ritual practices in which ädemi and a'chudi songs are sung. Thus, these two modes of singing appears as one of the most valued vectors of movement and production of "traditional knowledge". The effort of our research is to investigate the different forms of singing associated with wätunnä, understand the meanings and values related to this native concept, and describe networks of sociocosmic relations activated by the songs. In other words, how songs connect subjects and worlds, visible and invisible, and how act and affect people and things.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MAJOÍ FAVERO GONGORA. A troca do fio e os descaminhos do duplo: sonho e vigília entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris. Rev. Antropol., v. 65, n. 3, 2022-11-21. (12/23866-0)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GONGORA, Majoi Favero. Ääma ashichaato: replications, transformations, persons and songs between the Yekwana people of the Auaris River. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.