Etnography and translation of Krahô's (Timbira) chants

• Grant number: 15/00760-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior
• Grantee: Ian Packer
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/26676-0 - Transforming amerindian regional systems: the Upper Xingu case, AP.JP
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/12662-1 - Etnography and translation of Krahô verbal arts, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This project proposes an investigation on the Amerindian verbal arts, taking as a research object and focus of reflection and analysis the chants and oral performances of the Krahôs'singers, Timbira people (Gê) that inhabits the north of the state of Tocantins. We will approach the Krahô's repertoire of songs in order to examine: 1) Which characteristics and problems found in Kraho's sociocosmology guide their ritual practice and the creation of figures and poetics arrangements found in their chants? 2) How do the distinct modalities of Kraho's verbal arts articulate between themselves? 3) Which conception of creation and authorship is implicit in each one of them? Our aim in this research is to contribute to the understanding of Timbira ritual practices, in particular, and to the ethnology of the Gê people, in general, as well as to the reflection on the theoretical and poetics criteria necessary for the study and translation of the Amerindian verbal arts. (AU)

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)

IAN PACKER. SOBRE A LENHA, LABAREDA SOU: POÉTICA DA MEMÓRIA EM UM CANTO RITUAL KRAHÔ. Cadernos de Tradução, v. 39, p. 227-247, 2020-03-09. (15/00760-0, 13/26676-0)

IAN PACKER. O Canto da Machadinha: mito, ritual e história em um gênero de arte verbal krahô. Mana, v. 30, n. 1, 2024-05-10. (15/00760-0, 22/14000-1)

Academic Publications

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

PACKER, Ian. Flames on the firewood: poetics of memory and forgetfulness in the krahô verbal arts (Timbira/Central Brazil). 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.