“ANTI-PSYCH”: REFLECTIONS ON BODIES AND ITS DOUBLES IN THE AMAZON

Authors

  • Leif Grunewald Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.30307

Keywords:

body, soul, Amazonia, representation, point of view.

Abstract

This article focus on the question about how to talk about a soul without reducing it to a mere image that represents the human body. In order to do so, this thesis returns the ethnographic data on the Araweté and Yanomami peoples, to the cinema studies made by Gilles Deleuze and to the classic discussions that play an important role in current Amerindian Ethnology studies, through the texts of Tânia Stolze Lima. In doing so, this thesis proposes a reflection on different ways of thinking the notion of ‘soul’, stressing the ways it offers resistance to the stabilization, representation and condensation into a single image that stands for a body.

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Author Biography

Leif Grunewald, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Doutorando em Antropologia Social

Published

2012-12-30

How to Cite

GRUNEWALD, L. “ANTI-PSYCH”: REFLECTIONS ON BODIES AND ITS DOUBLES IN THE AMAZON. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 6, n. 2, p. 249, 2012. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.30307. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/30307. Acesso em: 9 may. 2025.

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ESSAY