Cosmologia, perspectivismo e agência social na arte ameríndia: estudo de três casos etnográficos

Abstract

This dissertation is an experiment of comparison between three ethnographies of the Amazonia: Kaxinawa, Wayana and Wauja. The subjects discussed and compared are involving the perspectivism, the corporality, the aesthetic, the ontological status of art and the social agency of art. Firstly, we based in some important authors who contributed with reflections and/or proposals to the anthropological study of the art. Among them, we give a special emphasis to the approach of Alfred Gell, which treats the art as a system of action, in which the nature of the object is a function of social-relational matrix in which it is inserted. In sequence, we write a brief introduction to the art and cosmology amerindian, and then we present a summary of each ethnography. In a third moment, we do a dialog with some monographs, in trying to do some possible comparisons about the status of art in these societies.