Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen

Warfare and Story among the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. For the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, warfare is not something just to be fought, it is also something to be recounted in stories. The right to tell the story belongs in principle only to those who have already killed. Thi...

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Main Author: Salvatore D’Onofrio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2003-01-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/3743
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description Warfare and Story among the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. For the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, warfare is not something just to be fought, it is also something to be recounted in stories. The right to tell the story belongs in principle only to those who have already killed. This sort of pantomime, little known among other Indians of the lowlands, is related to myth by virtue of the canonical manner in which it unfolds and of the connexions it establishes with other aspects of Ayoreo culture: body painting, hunting, shamanic powers, ritual activities. Ayoreo warfare – compelled in order to be effective to inscribe itself within a symbolic horizon – is modelled on the basis of the logic of predation, as has been emphasized in several recent works, but confirms – above all through the analysis of substances and gestures – its possible conversion into an exchange relationship.
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title Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen
title_full Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen
title_fullStr Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen
title_full_unstemmed Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen
title_short Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen
title_sort guerre et recit chez les indiens ayores du chaco boreal paraguayen
topic pantomime
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