The (dis)empowerment of things in Amazonian cosmopolitics
An Anthropological Workshop
at the Sainsbury Research Unit
for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
29 – 30 May 2009
A workshop convened by Dr Aristóteles Barcelos Neto, of the Sainsbury Research Unit, with speakers from Oxford, Paris, Berlin, St Andrews and Rio de Janeiro.
Discussants: Prof Steven Hooper (SRU) and Dr George Lau (SRU).
Programme
Friday | 29 May | |
14:00 | Registration and welcome | |
14:20 | Vanessa Elisa Grotti | Contact expeditions, contagious influence and the politics of ordinary objects in northeastern Amazonia. |
15:00 | Cristiane Lasmar | Western goods and new female subjectivities in the upper rio Negro |
15:40 | Marc Brightman | Painted cosmos: the Wayana maluwana and embodiment of collectivity. |
16:20 | Coffee break | |
16:40 | Evelyn Schuler | Appropriation in question: Waiwai meanderings |
17:20 | Debate | Discussant: Professor Steven Hooper (Sainsbury Research Unit) |
19:30 | Dinner |
Saturday |
30 May | |
09:00 | Paolo Fortis | What does General Douglas McArthur do among the Kuna of Panamá? Images and alterity in an Amerindian ontology. |
09:40 | Cesar Gordon | The objects of the whites: commodities and consumerism among the Xikrin-Kayapo Indians of Amazonia |
10:20 | Coffee break | |
10:40 | Aristoteles Barcelos Neto | The biographical temporality of Xinguano rituals and the (dis)empowerment of objects and chiefs |
11:20 | Dimitri Karadimas | Why do flutes and trumpets generate? Yurupari instruments in North-west Amazon mythology and ritual. |
12:00 | Debate | Discussant: Dr George Lau (Sainsbury Research Unit) |