Growing Gardes: Towards a Theory of Ecological Aesthetic Performances in Indigenous Amazonia

Autores

  • Theresa Miller Oxford University

Palavras-chave:

aesthetics, performance, ecology, Jê-speaking societies, Amazonia

Resumo

This article focuses on the production and performance of material culture in indigenous Amazonia. When understood as the study of various relationships between persons and things, material culture studies can include an examination of human-plant relationships involved in gardening practices and plant cultivation. This article will demonstrate how North-Western Jê societies conceive of gardening practices as a series of multi-sensory aesthetic ecological performances through which meaningful human-plant relationships are created and maintained. It will be shown how analyzing gardening as an aesthetic performance can lead to a renewed understanding of the material and symbolic aspects of plant cultivation and of material culture studies as a whole.

 

Cultivando roças: Uma abordagem das performances ecológicas
e estéticas na Amazônia indígena

Esse artigo trata da produção e da performance da cultura material
na Amazônia indígena. Entendido enquanto estudo das relações entre pessoas e coisas, os estudos de cultura material podem incluir um exame das relações humano-planta envolvidas no cultivo de plantas. Esse artigo demonstrará como as sociedades Jê setentrionais conceitualizam as práticas de cultivo como uma série de performances multi-sensoriais estéticas, através das quais as relações humano-planta são formadas e mantidas. Será mostrado que, analizar as práticas de cultivo como performances estéticas, pode levar a um entendimento renovado dos aspetos materiais e simbólicos do cultivo de plantas, e do estudo da cultura material em geral.

Palavras-chave: estética, performance, ecologica, sociedades Jê, Amazônia

Biografia do Autor

Theresa Miller, Oxford University

Theresa Miller is DPhil candidate in Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), Oxford University, UK. She has MPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University with BA in International Politics from American University, Washington, D.C., USA.

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Publicado

2017-09-21