The Forest Within: The World-View of the Tukano Amazonian Indians.

Dean, Bartholomew; Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo

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“…The figure's twisted feet further reinforce its association with the Curupira entity. This is similar to the drawing of the entity collected by Reichel-Dolmatoff (1996) in a maloca among the Tukano (Fig. 6e).…”

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“…The shaman is in connection with the Master of Animals, that is, a spiritual being who commands all animals. According to Reichel-Dolmatoff (1996), this entity belongs to Amazonian societies that gave importance to a sacred geography of the landscape, as in the case of the Tukano, manifested in two favourable spaces: mountains and lakes, both present in the Vaupés region, in Colombia. In them would live the ancestors and all sorts of fish, anacondas and other aquatic creatures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In them would live the ancestors and all sorts of fish, anacondas and other aquatic creatures. Also according to Reichel-Dolmatoff (1996), building malocas [residences] near these lakes was an important symbolic strategy, since these ancestral aquatic creatures would protect their inhabitants. The Animal Master himself would live in a maloca, called the House of Ancestors, which could be in the lake or on its shore.…”

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“…To access these primordial houses, people would need to be adorned, painted and bathed. Reichel-Dolmatoff (1996) postulates ecological conditions for the existence of the Master of Animals. This one would not be presented to a large group of people, but to small groups of people or individuals when they were performing daily tasks such as hunting and fishing, protecting preyed animals.…”

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“…Câmara Cascudo (1998) also discusses the difficulty of the Curupira to remain standing, due to the absence of knee joints, and that, once lying down, it is difficult for it to return to an upright posture; Figure 6d seems to have no knees, and, leaning on the lip of the container, shows a posture that is not very erect, a bit awkward, one might say. Reichel-Dolmatoff (1996) reported that the shaman's way of accessing the Master of Animals is through the use of hallucinogens. The statuette of Formoso 6b has a depression in the region of the abdomen that could have been used for inhalation of hallucinogenic substances by the shaman.…”

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Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia

Navarro

2023

CAJ

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This work aims to apply the theories of new materialities to the study of the material culture of the Formoso stilt village, a pre-colonial settlement from the ninth–tenth centuries ad, located in the Baixada Maranhense. Appliqués of the pottery bowls at this archaeological site present cosmological information regarding the transformation or metamorphosis of bodies, aspects that are fertile for the discussion of shamanism in the lowlands of South America, especially the Amazon. Classic concepts of anthropological ethnography applied to archaeology are used, contributing to the discussion on the diversity of ways to manufacture the body in the Amazon in its easternmost portion, such as that of the Master of Animals, a supernatural entity metamorphosed by the shaman and who could also have been part of the cosmology of the lake peoples of Maranhão, Brazil. Two artifacts depicting beings that have their feet turned backwards may be associated with the Curupira, thus evidencing a long-lasting history of this supernatural being that was recorded both in colonial documentation and in indigenous ethnography.

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