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Visual creativity and transformations among the Matipu people of Upper Xingu

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Author(s):
Gabriela Aguillar Leite
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior; Elsje Maria Lagrou; Artionka Manuela Góes Capiberibe
Advisor: Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior
Abstract

This research investigates the visual creativity of the Matipu people of the Ngahünga village, speakers of a variety of the Karib language (LKAX). For the analysis, the study has focused mainly on Matipu¿s visual productions in two surfaces: in their own bodies, through body paintings, and in bracelets and necklaces made of beads. By means of these two objects, the research aims at discussing both the relations that cross the creations made by the Matipu, as well as the relations in which those creations involve them. The work presented here is also permeated by the effort to describe ways in which local conceptions of artistic creativity are updated by what is recognized in the Amazon literature as an Amerindian thought based on notions of transformation. It also takes into consideration that both the paintings and the beads constitute a broader concept of body ornamentation, which is part of a regional style. Therefore, the ethnographic fieldwork centered in the village also includes the dimension of the multiethnic and multilingual system of the Upper Xingu, which the Matipu are members along other nine indigenous groups, and with whom they share a common graphic and aesthetic repertoire, mobilized especially during regional rituals (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/00983-0 - Paintings producing persons and persons producing paintings: aesthetics, agency and transformation among the Matipu (MT)
Grantee:Gabriela Aguillar Leite
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master