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

Auteurs

  • Mona Birgit Suhrbier Museum für Völkerkunde Frankfurt am Main.

DOI :

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

Mots-clés :

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

Résumé

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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Publiée

1999-12-17

Numéro

No 9 (1999)

Rubrique

Artigos

Licence

(c) Copyright Mona Birgit Suhrbier 1999

Creative Commons License

Ce travail est disponible sous licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International.

Comment citer

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: 17 mai. 2024.