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| Author(s): |
Igor Morais Mariano Rodrigues
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) |
| Defense date: | 2022-01-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Fabiola Andrea Silva;
Juliana Salles Machado Bueno;
Camila Pereira Jacome;
Marcia Maria Arcuri Suñer;
Lucia Hussak van Velthem
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| Advisor: | Fabiola Andrea Silva; Ruben Caixeta de Queiroz |
| Abstract | |
Plaitworks, or basketry, are widely present and persistent in the lives of many Amerindian peoples, providing excellent opportunities for artifact variability studies. However, like other perishable technologies, plaitworks are understudied by Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology. The Ethnoarchaeological study presented in this thesis, therefore, provides visibility and contributes to the production of knowledge about this artifact type, focusing on plaitworks of Mapuera River peoples, also known as Wai Wai people, located in the northwest of Pará state, Brazil. The thesis argues that plaitworks technology is composed of social webs of human knowledge from various peoples (yana), whose productive excellence requires negotiating with (and absorbing knowledge from) other beings and worlds, integrating pragmatic, symbolic, cosmological, ontological and historical aspects. Thusly, this research addresses: manufacturing techniques, including the fabrication of skilled artisans and interactions with different beings; the cultural meanings of plaitworks production, and use; native criteria of plaitworks artifacts differentiation and classification; the formation of ethnographic collections, and the possibilities of their study as historical documents; the artifact variability over a century, distinguishing technological continuities and changes, and the main reasons for them. Therefore, it also presents reflections on some archaeological, anthropological and indigenous concepts related to materiality, technology and artifact variability. Different scales of teachinglearning analysis of plaitworks are explored. Finally, with a comparative study of three plaitworks classes made by different Cariban-speaking peoples in the Guyanese Amazon, a model is presented to think about how ideas, knowledge flows and techniques circulate in this region, thus, contributing to the debate around the of material culture pattering and identity boundaries in Archeology. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/13343-4 - Wefts of technology: ethnoarchaeology and variability of Waiwai plaitworks |
| Grantee: | Igor Morais Mariano Rodrigues |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |