IMAGE AGAINST PURE REPRESENTATION: BODIES, SOULS AND COSMOPOTICS IN THE AMAZON
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.20873Keywords:
soul, image, Amazonia, amerindian perspectivism.Abstract
A close look to the notion of soul as presented in a variety of ethnographies about south american lowland societies reveals us a curious relation between ‘soul’ and ‘image’, describing it as corporal ‘images’ which can set relations with non-humans alterity forms. These relations, as we commonly know, are riskful, due to the possibility of a soul being aggressed or captured by those non-humans beings. This, of course, by only one side. By the other, those same relations with non-human beings have a special deal in shamanism and naming-rituals. This essay aims, thus, to amplify comprehension of which type of image might be this one called ‘soul’, and how it could be understood as a specific non-representational image.Downloads
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2011-12-29
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GRUNEWALD, Leif. IMAGE AGAINST PURE REPRESENTATION: BODIES, SOULS AND COSMOPOTICS IN THE AMAZON. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 5, n. 3, p. 161, 2011. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.20873. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/20873. Acesso em: 15 aug. 2025.
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