Comment attirer le gibier ? Pratique du jeûne et récitation de chants magiques dans les activités cynégétiques wampis (jivaro)
Wampis hunters fast and perform anen magical songs to attract game. The performativity of these songs rests upon the hunter’s ability to realize an affective work on himself: from the Wampis’ point of view, if the singer gets a bodily experience of the relationship with the addressee described by th...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15172 |
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| Summary: | Wampis hunters fast and perform anen magical songs to attract game. The performativity of these songs rests upon the hunter’s ability to realize an affective work on himself: from the Wampis’ point of view, if the singer gets a bodily experience of the relationship with the addressee described by the spell, so the latter will also feel it. The hunter has to “think intensely”, shir anentaimat, the scene depicted by the text of the anen. The purpose is to manipulate the animal’s thoughts and emotions so that it may act in favour of a propitious hunting outcome. To be effective, the manipulative intent must remain hidden from the game, which is why anen are subvocalized. By a pragmatic and semantic analysis of these magical songs, this article aims to reveal the ritual and linguistic devices which allow the hunter to establish the desired relationship with the prey. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |