Abstract
This thesis deals with different aspects of the processes of production of sociability
among the Xikrin-Mebengokre of the Catete River, central Brazil. I focus on
ceremonies and their performance, as ways of access to Mebengokre conceptions
concerning the morality and aesthetics of social life. I analyse the semiotics of
'kin'-ship production, the performative aspects of emotion as a sociability tool, the
use of song and dance for the co-ordination of collective technical tasks, and a
Mebengokre 'theory of language' as social agency. In the conclusion I focus on the
criticism of some of the key theoretical aspects of Ge ethnology, in the light of my
previous analysis.
Type
Thesis, PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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