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Introduction. Indigenous visual and oral registers of non-humans in South American contexts of transformations

Introduction. Indigenous visual and oral registers of non-humans in South American contexts of transformations

Introduction. Indigenous visual and oral registers of non-humans in South American contexts of transformations

This small dossier presents a joint ethnographic attempt to address indigenous relationships with external or foreign agents as they are embedded in the images of the devil of colonial Catholic missionaries in the Andes and Amazonia (Dimitri Karadimas) and the sarode of the Ayoreo in a context saturated by modern protestant proselytizers in the Chaco (María Cristina Dasso). These ethnographic approaches are concerned with describing what there is in those worlds, but also with illustrating different forms to approach it. They carry out their descriptions through two contrasted types of fieldwork data: Amerindian iconographic expressions and indigenous narrative forms. And also two contrasted approaches: a regional comparison of Andes and Amazonia, and a focus on the Ayoreo of the Chaco. The final picture of these current anthropological ethnographies depicts some of the contrasted contents and forms that are nowadays being highlighted by ontologically-inflected Amerindian studies. Keywords: Andes; Amazon; Chaco; Ethnography; Amerindian

Este breve conjunto de trabajos presenta un esfuerzo etnográfico conjunto de abordar algunas de las relaciones amerindias con agentes externos sea tal como aparecen encarnados en imágenes del demonio en los Andes y la Amazonía (Dimitri Karadimas), sea tal como se expresan en los sarode de los ayoreo en un contexto saturado por el proselitismo protestante contemporáneo (María Cristina Dasso). Ambas aproximaciones etnográficas ilustran, no sólo descripciones distintas de los componentes de estos mundos indígenas, sino también formas diversas de aproximarse a ellos. No solo utilizan, pues, tipos contrastados de datos etnograficos (expresiones iconográficas y narrativas), sino también de aproximaciones (la comparación regional entre áreas tan vastas como los Andes y la Amazonía) y el énfasis descriptivo de un pueblo localizado en una región concreta. Finalmente, sin necesidad de una adscripción explícita, la imagen final de estas etnografías antropológicas actuales bien podría mostrar algunas de las encrucijadas temáticas y metdológicas que son actualmente resaltadas por los estudios amerindios asociados al llamado “giro ontológico”. Palabras clave: Andes; Amazonia; Chaco; Etnografía; Amerindio

This small dossier presents a joint ethnographic attempt to address indigenous relationships with external or foreign agents as they are embedded in the images of the devil of colonial Catholic missionaries in the Andes and Amazonia (Dimitri Karadimas) and the sarode of the Ayoreo in a context saturated by modern protestant proselytizers in the Chaco (María Cristina Dasso). These ethnographic approaches are concerned with describing what there is in those worlds, but also with illustrating different forms to approach it. They carry out their descriptions through two contrasted types of fieldwork data: Amerindian iconographic expressions and indigenous narrative forms. And also two contrasted approaches: a regional comparison of Andes and Amazonia, and a focus on the Ayoreo of the Chaco. The final picture of these current anthropological ethnographies depicts some of the contrasted contents and forms that are nowadays being highlighted by ontologically-inflected Amerindian studies. Keywords: Andes; Amazon; Chaco; Ethnography; Amerindian

10.13125/americacritica/3858

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