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Bisiw Paths: a tensive study of hupd’äh jurupari ritual mobility

Abstract

In the region of the Upper Rio Negro-Vaupés, Hupd’äh Jurupari rituals join elders and young boys along Amazonian forest paths. Shamanic spells are uttered and sacred flutes are played during hunting and gathering expeditions a few days before and after the communal ceremony. The relation between perspectivist anthropology and tensive semiotics enables this study to highlight the shamanic and ethnopoetic motile dimensions of the Hupd’äh Jurupari ritual movement. It shows how relational forest path fields situate the dimensions of sociocosmic mobility, human-non human communication and musical-verbal art along the Jurupari extensive ritual landscape.

Keywords:
Ritual; Mobility; Tensive analysis; Alto Rio Negro

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