Broken words, furious wasps. How should we translate the sonic materiality of Araweté ritual singing?
In Araweté ritual singing, the performance of oporahẽ songs is an exercise in downplaying referential meaning without the actual removal of the sounds of the language. These songs are performed in a way that effectively break words into syllables, which are recombined to form unusual and “meaningles...
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Société des américanistes
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/18302 |
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