Songs, body and knowledge amongst the Kaxinawá

• Grant number: 13/03660-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
• Grantee: Alice Haibara de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to study kaxinawá singing, in order to better understand different ways of learning and skills building, emphasizing the preparation and making of the body as a center and enabler of such knowledge. The idea is to analyze how the songs are conceived, practiced and experienced in different contexts, and the importance of singing in the making of the kaxinawá person. Thus, recognizing that in Amerindian societies the development of a person has a strong relationship with the making of the body (Seeger, da Matta, and Viveiros de Castro, 1979) and that for Kaxinawá there is an intense relationship between the body and learning processes (Kensinger, 1995; Lagrou 1998; Yano, 2009), this research seeks to analyze the relationship between the body and the process of "learning to sing", and also the relationship between the songs' agency and the ways of learning amongst the Kaxinawá

Academic Publications

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

OLIVEIRA, Alice Haibara de. I have already shifted: modes of circulation and transformations of people and knowledge among Huni Ku People (Kaxinawá). 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.