L’inflation à la mode Kayapo : rituel, marchandise et monnaie chez les Xikrin (Kayapo) de l’Amazonie brésilienne
Inflation Kayapo-style : ritual, commodity and money among the Xikrin (Kayapo) of Brasilian Amazonia. The Xikrin (a Kayapo group of Brazilian Amazonia, who speak the mebêngôkre language of the Gê linguistic stock) show a great interest in objects made by the White people. Surprisingly enough, money...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/11567 |
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| Summary: | Inflation Kayapo-style : ritual, commodity and money among the Xikrin (Kayapo) of Brasilian Amazonia. The Xikrin (a Kayapo group of Brazilian Amazonia, who speak the mebêngôkre language of the Gê linguistic stock) show a great interest in objects made by the White people. Surprisingly enough, money and goods have become embedded in every domain of Xikrin life, including kinship, economy, politics and ritual. In this paper, I try to show that this sort of consumerism results of a complex interaction between general principles of Kayapo sociocosmology and the particular historical conditions in which such principles operate and are actualized. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |