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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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:05b4d8bece124b2e934e80e86e0d2c8a 2023-05-15T18:33:22+02:00 Labrets: Piercing and Stretching on the Northwest Coast and in Amazonia Jenny Reddish 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/05b4d8bece124b2e934e80e86e0d2c8a EN ES PT eng spa por Universidad Nacional de Colombia http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644 https://doaj.org/toc/2145-5074 https://doaj.org/toc/2145-5082 2145-5074 2145-5082 https://doaj.org/article/05b4d8bece124b2e934e80e86e0d2c8a Mundo Amazónico, Vol 4, Iss 0, Pp 57-75 (2014) Body ornaments Northwest Coast Suya Kayapo sensorial anthropology General Works A article 2014 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-30T23:36:39Z 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 Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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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). |
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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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