Tipití,

Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Volume 4, Numbers 1-2, June–December 2006

Special issue in honor of Joanna Overing:
In the World and About the World: Amerindian Modes of Knowledge

Fernando Santos-Granero and George Mentore, guest editors

Please note that the contents of this issue are not yet finalized and may change before the issue goes to press.

Articles

Introduction

George Mentore &
Fernando Santos-Granero       Amerindian Modes of Knowledge

Poetics of Knowledge

Joanna Overing                       The Stench of Death and the Aromas of Life: Poetics of Ways of Knowing
                                                and Sensory Process among Piaroa of the Orinoco Basin

Els Lagrou                               Laughing at Power and the Power of Laughing
                                                 in Cashinahua Narratives and Performances

Disembodied Senses

Fernando Santos-Granero        Sensual Vitalities: Non-Corporeal Modes of Sensing and Knowing
                                                 in Native Amazonia

Dan Rosengren                        Matsigenka Corporeality: A Non-Biological Reality. On Notions of
                                                 Consciousness and the Constitution of Identity.

Guilherme Werlang                 On Body and Soul

Embodied Knowledge

Luisa Elvira Belaunde              The Strength of Thoughts, the Stench of Blood:
                                                 Amazonian Hematology and Gender

Alan Passes                              From One to Metaphor: Toward an Understanding of Pa’ikwené (Palikur)
                                                 Mathematics

Sylvia Caiuby Novaes             Bororo Funerals. Images of the Refacement of the World

Knowledge in Practice

Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin       Instrumental Speeches, Morality, and Masculine Agency among
                                                 Muinane People (Colombian Amazon)

Robert Storrie                           The Politics of Shamanism and the Limits of Fear

John Renshaw                         “The Effectiveness of Symbols” Revisited: Ayoreo Curing Songs

Politics of Knowledge

Peter Gow                               “Purús Song.” Nationalization and Tribalization in Southwestern Amazonia

George Mentore                      The Triumph and Sorrow of Beauty: Comparing the Recursive,
                                                Contrapuntal, and Cellular Aesthetics of Being