IMAGE AGAINST PURE REPRESENTATION: BODIES, SOULS AND COSMOPOTICS IN THE AMAZON

Authors

  • Leif Grunewald UFF/PPGA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.20873

Keywords:

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.

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Author Biography

Leif Grunewald, UFF/PPGA

Graduado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Mestre em Antropologia Social pela Universidade Federal Fluminense e Doutorando em Antropologia Social na mesma instituição. Tem interesse em Etnologia Indígena e as relações entre almas e corpos, e no perspectivismo ameríndio.

Published

2011-12-29

How to Cite

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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ESSAY