This dissertation examines the activities of hunting and exchange and how they are thought about by the northern Quebec Cree of Wemindji. The activities of material production are generated in the dialectical relation of experience to Cree structures of thought. Reciprocity amounts to a paradigm for Cree thought, informing models of both ecological and social relations. The effect of material relations on structural transformations is viewed in discursive genres of several levels, ranging from everyday dialogue to mythico-ritual symbolism. Special attention is paid to four categories of "persons" which have been of consuming interest to the natural and social science of the Crees: Canada geese, black bears, Crees, and "White Men".

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Cet ouvrage examina une cérémonie particulière aux Kwagul de Colombie Britannique: le rituel d'initiation hamatsa. Basée sur une recherche effectuée en pays kwagul et enrichie de nombreuses données ethnographiques, la thèse s'appuie au niveau théorique : sur des travaux récents de Lévi-Strauss et de Turner. Afin d'atteindre la structure du rituel per se, nous, l'expurgeons de ses gloses et exégèses. Ses mythologies implicite, et explicite sont analysées. La première réfère à la vision du monde kwagul et à son ethos. L'éthos kwagul est constitué d'un ensemble de thèmes rituels qui tous relèvent du principe de transformation de la mort en la vie. La vision du monde kwagul est à l'image d'un monde zoo ou anthropomorphique doté d'une unique cavité appelée par les kwagul, la bouche. C'est par l'intermédiaire de celle-ci que les transformations s'opèrent. L'analyse des codes culinaires déployés dans les mythes et les rites dévoile que la mort et la Création sont exprimées par des métaphores orales. La mythologie explicite composée du paradigme mythique Baxbakwalanuxsiwae est analysée sur une période d'un siècle, confirmant certaines caractéristiques de l'évolution des mythes. Le mythe exprime une exogamie démesurée à laquelle s'oppose sa limite inférieure; le rapprochement trop étroit d'un frère et d'une soeur que les Bella Bella et les Kwagul illustrent dans la phase finale de leurs mythes et de leurs rites. La métaphore cannibalique est analysée sous l'angle de la parenté; elle circonscrit le champ de l'alliance acceptable par la culture. La femme est perçue alors comme le médiateur entre les humains et les ogres surnaturels. Evoquant le thème de la grande naissance, les différentes séquences du rituel hamatsa sont analysées chronologiquement. Au cours de son initiation, afin de surpasser sa "mort", l'initié devait manger la "mort". A la mort symbolique du novice correspond une naissance symbolique suivie d'une socialisation réelle. La comparaison mythe/rite permet finalement de conclure que la démarche rituelle ne répète pas systématiquement la démarche de la pensée mythique, mais au contraire l'inverse. Cette inversion est due à l'emploi du morcellement et de la répétition qui fait que le rite remonte le mythe à contresens. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

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The thesis is an ethnographic account of the belief system surrounding disease and curing among the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. It is an attempt to describe this system in its own terms, and to interpret its meaning by attending to the various symbolic, ritual, and social contexts in which it finds expression. Above all, the ethnography strives to understand Kuna theories of disease causation and cure. Theoretical assumptions and methodological suggestions have been borrowed from the anthropological sub-fields of ethnoscience, symbolic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The ethnography is loosely organized around the natural progression taken by the Kuna when they discover that someone has fallen ill, diagnose his illness, and then set about devising strategies for restoring him to health. Earlier chapters scrutinize the component parts of this belief system, and these are brought together in a synthetic manner in the penultimate chapter. The ultimate theoretical objective is to demonstrate that cultural symbols can only be properly understood when viewed within the natural context in which they are used. The final chapter deals with cultural and social change in San Blas, with special emphasis on the island of Ustuppu, over the past 70 years.

The technology of the dominant society, the omnipresence of a cash economy, and a history of the brutal treatment of culturally distinct peoples are among the assimilative pressures faced by native peoples within the United States. Some indigenous cultures have managed to resist the forces of assimilation in ways that are both adaptive and culturally sustaining. The Pueblos of the Southwestern United States have managed to preserve their culture through the creation of cultural boundaries that are both adaptive and culturally sustaining. The processes which serve to strengthen and renew the symbols which represent these boundaries are those of "revitalization" and "resynchronization," both of which arise from Pueblo religious practices and from the Pueblos' strong sense of family. / Department of Anthropology

Orientador: John Manuel Monteiro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T04:54:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Takatuzi_Tatiana_M.pdf: 956926 bytes, checksum: 3e0774422f5a00e1452a76d0361f80f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O presente trabalho acompanha a trajetória histórica de Atalaia, um aldeamento composto por índios Kaingang que teve sua concepção no governo da Capitania de São Paulo durante o processo de colonização dos Campos de Guarapuava na primeira metade do século XIX. Registros eclesiásticos, listas nominativas e relatos de Francisco das Chagas Lima, principal pároco que permaneceu no aldeamento por dezoito anos, documentam como a Igreja estabeleceu classificações hierárquicas, através das quais buscou enquadrar os índios num sistema de subordinação. Em contrapartida, também foram percebidas formas de representações indígenas nas quais uma suposta aceitação dos rituais cristãos é analisada segundo a ótica de uma política e cosmologia própria dos Kaingang, onde os diversos conflitos e alianças que permearam a história desse grupo foram visualizados de acordo com uma visão dualista de mundo e em função de um alto faccionalismo hierárquico. A dialética do encontro em situação de aldeamento promoveu a elaboração e construção de novas relações sociais e a representação indígena não foi explicitada unicamente pelos conflitos contra o colonizador mas, sobretudo, por meio de negociações e adaptações de diferenciadas formas de convívio determinados pelos atores indígenas e coloniais / Abstract: This thesis examines the historical development of Atalaia, a village occupied by Kaingang Indians, which was established in the early nineteenth century by the colonial government of the Captaincy of São Paulo as part of its colonization plan for the Campos de Guarapuava region. Based on ecclesiastical records, census lists, and the writings of Francisco das Chagas Lima, a priest who remained in the village for 18 years, the thesis shows how the church developed a hierarchical classification scheme, subjecting the Indians to a system of subordination. At the same time, the work reveals indigenous forms of representation, analyzing the apparent acceptance of Christian rituals from the perspective of Kaingang politics and cosmology, where the conflicts and alliances that permeated this group¿s history followed a dualistic world view and the logic of a hierarchical factionalism. The dialectics of the encounter within the space of the village promoted the elaboration and construction of new social relations, since indigenous agency was expressed not only through conflicts with colonial interests, but also through the negotiation and adaptation of various forms of coexistence determined both by indigenous as well and colonial actors / Mestrado / Antropologia / Mestre em Antropologia

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This thesis considers how Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, Mohegan writers in Early America, used the hymns of English hymnodist, Isaac Watts. Each chapter traces how either Samson Occom or Joseph Johnson's adapted Isaac Watts's hymns for Native communities and how these texts are sites of affective sovereignty.