La multiplicité des discours sur le corps chez les Suruí du Rondônia (Amazonie brésilienne)

• Published in: Ateliers d'anthropologie Vol. 46; no. 46
• Main Author: Yvinec, Cédric
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; French
• Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 03.07.2019
• Subjects: Brazilian Amazon; individuation; kinship; organs; ornamentation; speech

Conceptions of the body among the Suruí of Rondônia (Brazilian Amazon) do not appear so much as theories based on an opposition between “body” and “soul(s)”, “inside” and “outside”, etc., but rather as discourse that makes it possible to claim certain abilities in very specific contexts, faced with...