From the Times of the Onça: on the meaning of the Kamayurá (Alto Xingu) objects.

Authors

  • Mona Birgit Suhrbier Museum für Völkerkunde Frankfurt am Main.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1999.109349

Keywords:

Material Culture - Myths and Rituals - Bow and Arrow - Upper Rio Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Abstract

The paper presents a method for interpreting objects of the ethnographic collection of the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia of the University of São Paulo. Using the structural analysis of myths and rituals the symbolic significance of two objects (artifacts) from the indian reservation of the Upper Rio Xingu, Mato Grosso, is explained.

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Published

1999-12-17

Issue

No. 9 (1999)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 1999 Mona Birgit Suhrbier

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How to Cite

SUHRBIER, Mona Birgit. From the Times of the Onça: on the meaning of the Kamayurá (Alto Xingu) objects. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 9, p. 195–204, 1999. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1999.109349. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revmae/article/view/109349.. Acesso em: 21 may. 2024.