Tecnologias de trançados e cerâmicas dos Wai Wai em coleções etnográficas

Igor M. Mariano Rodrigues; Meliam Viganó Gaspar

doi:10.18441/ind.v37i2.171-203

Wai Wai Plaitwork and Pottery Technologies in Ethnographic Collections

Authors

Igor M. Mariano Rodrigues Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4793-8157
Meliam Viganó Gaspar Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9770-3786

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v37i2.171-203

Keywords:

Wai Wai, ethnographic collections, plaitwork, ceramics, Amazon, Brazil

Abstract

Several objects produced by the Wai Wai, a Cariban speaking people from the
northern Amazon, are currently kept in museums as part of ethnographic collections. Created by several persons at different periods and for different purposes, these collections can be studied as historical documents that testify to the Wai Wai relations with collectors and other peoples, as well as specific ways of making that are maintained or transformed over time. This article presents the diversity of plaitwork and ceramic objects in museums and their production techniques, so as to reflect on the interactions between these objects in museums and in Wai Wai lives and thought. Related to each other in different moments of their production sequence and use, both artefact categories make it possible to understand materiality in different social, cosmological, and ontological interaction spheres of the Wai Wai.

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Published

2020-12-05

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Dossier

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