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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ftuncolombiair:oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/72225 2023-07-16T04:01:08+02:00 Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia Reddish, Jenny 2013 application/pdf https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/72225 http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/36698/ spa spa Universidad Nacional de Colombia http://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644 Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Mundo Amazonico Mundo Amazonico Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazonico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 2145-5082 2145-5074 Reddish, Jenny (2013) Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia. Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazonico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 2145-5082 2145-5074 . https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/72225 http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/36698/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessDerechos reservados - Universidad Nacional de Colombia Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Anthropology Sensorial Anthropology Amazonian Ethnography Northwest Coast Ethnography Body ornaments Northwest Coast Suya Kayapo Artículo de revista info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 Text http://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ART 2013 ftuncolombiair 2023-06-25T00:06:51Z 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 Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
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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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http://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/37644 Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Mundo Amazonico Mundo Amazonico Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazonico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 2145-5082 2145-5074 Reddish, Jenny (2013) Labrets: piercing and stretching on the northwest coast and in amazonia. Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazonico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 Mundo Amazónico; Vol. 4 (2013); 57-75 2145-5082 2145-5074 . https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/72225 http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/36698/ |
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