Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia
This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities...
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ftclacso:oai:clacso:co/co-027:article37644oai 2023-05-15T18:33:21+02:00 Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia Reddish, Jenny; Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia 2014-05-15 application/pdf http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-027&d=article37644oai spa spa Universidad Nacional de Colombia http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644/44805 http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-027&d=article37644oai Copyright (c) 2015 Jenny Reddish http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Anthropology Sensorial Anthropology Amazonian Ethnography Northwest Coast Ethnography Body ornaments Northwest Coast Suya Kayapo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares Peer-reviewed Article 2014 ftclacso 2017-10-24T08:40:25Z This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities). Drawing on the recent ‘sensorial turn’ within anthropology, I suggest an approach which goes beyond considerations of the symbolism of body ornaments and analyses how the infliction of pain they involve can be manipulated to serve social ends at a local level. Also discussed is the use of labrets within global ‘mediascapes’ (Appadurai 1996) by Kayapo and Northwest Coast groups in the context of self-representation and the politicization of ‘culture’ (Wright 1998). This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities). Drawing on the recent ‘sensorial turn’ within anthropology, I suggest an approach which goes beyond considerations of the symbolism of body ornaments and analyses how the infliction of pain they involve can be manipulated to serve social ends at a local level. Also discussed is the use of labrets within global ‘mediascapes’ (Appadurai 1996) by Kayapo and Northwest Coast groups in the context of self-representation and the politicization of ‘culture’ (Wright 1998). Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales) |
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Anthropology Sensorial Anthropology Amazonian Ethnography Northwest Coast Ethnography Body ornaments Northwest Coast Suya Kayapo Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia Reddish, Jenny; Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia |
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This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities). Drawing on the recent ‘sensorial turn’ within anthropology, I suggest an approach which goes beyond considerations of the symbolism of body ornaments and analyses how the infliction of pain they involve can be manipulated to serve social ends at a local level. Also discussed is the use of labrets within global ‘mediascapes’ (Appadurai 1996) by Kayapo and Northwest Coast groups in the context of self-representation and the politicization of ‘culture’ (Wright 1998). This article examines the practice of piercing and stretching the lip in order to accommodate a labret in two regions: the North American Northwest Coast (with historical examples from Tlingit and Haida groups) and lowland South America (utilizing ethnographic writings on Suya and Kayapo communities). Drawing on the recent ‘sensorial turn’ within anthropology, I suggest an approach which goes beyond considerations of the symbolism of body ornaments and analyses how the infliction of pain they involve can be manipulated to serve social ends at a local level. Also discussed is the use of labrets within global ‘mediascapes’ (Appadurai 1996) by Kayapo and Northwest Coast groups in the context of self-representation and the politicization of ‘culture’ (Wright 1998). |
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Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia Reddish, Jenny; Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia |
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Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia |
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Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia |
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Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia |
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Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia |
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Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia |
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labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
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http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-027&d=article37644oai |
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