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Drunken speech: A glimpse into the backstage of sociality in Western Amazonia

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Krokoszyński Ł.

Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia

2015

issue 1

11-33

This paper engages notions on sociality by Spanish speaking descendants of Panoan Capanahua from Peru, as revealed in one aspect of social practice. Speaking while inebriated, members of this small Western Amazonian population draw from locally specifi c set of ideas about the nature of social life. Therefore, an overview of various standardized themes and attitudes or modalities of such speeches presented in this paper refl ects different, often confl icting layers of ideas and practice of social life. Because of both their content and notions about the very inebriation, drunken speeches are shown to offer a privileged vantage point for understanding the Capanahua descendants’ notions and realizations of sociality. Indeed, they reveal one of the important problems fuelling the dynamics of their sociality, which is the tension between, on the one hand, perceptible dimension of village sociality governed by ideals of equality and neighbourly conviviality, and on the other, the inherent difference and hierarchy encoded in contested personal histories of origins. The latter are conceived as normally concealed layer of social life, but at the same time they condition local ideas about what might be understood as kinship and descent.

Robak zjada jaguara: procesy tworzenia relacji z perspektywy Amazonii zachodniej

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Krokoszyński Ł.

Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia

2017

issue 3

On the Tapiche River, in everyday lives of the local people, as well as in their understandings of relations between beings or cosmology, a prominent role is played by the figure of the smallest, often invisible perpetrator – in local terms, “the worm” (gusano). The article follows the ethnographic position of the “worm” in the local representations, suspending its understanding as a parasite in order to emphasize the space combining locally what we would call “parasitism” (as a kind of predation) with what we would call “consanguinity”. In addition, the “worm” position plays a decisive role in the ubiquitous and ambivalent causal process. As such, the ethnographically analyzed dynamics of the “worm” can be understood simultaneously as an outline of the local thought processes. The ethnographic description is at the same time a locally embedded theoretical argument about processes that create relations. It leads to reflection on the default tools and strategies for building anthropological knowledge. Thus, it is also a methodological proposal. I show that through the images opened by the “worm” figure – as a trace of an ambivalent killing-generation process – the local thought introduces distraction into the conventional and fundamental Euro-American distinctions of “alterity” (accompanied by hostility and predation indexed in the form of a jaguar) and the sphere of intimacy and kinship (with the accompanying security). In other words, ethnography shows the limitations of ideological assumptions about relations and kinship that mark the conceptual tools of social sciences.

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Drunken speech: A glimpse into the backstage of sociality in Western Amazonia

Robak zjada jaguara: procesy tworzenia relacji z perspektywy Amazonii zachodniej