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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of East Anglia
A serpente de corpo repleto de canções: Um tema amazônico sobre a arte do trançado
An output from ‘Beyond the Basket: Construction, Order and Meaning’ (AHRC), the article investigates one of the project’s central themes, the continuities and discontinuities between nature and culture. Rejecting the analysis of basketry as a ‘type’ of material culture, the author instead develops an ethnographic theory based on the skeuomorphic relation between Wauja basketry and pottery and categories of animal and material transformation. These crafts’ materiality and visuality contain songs of the mythical serpents that invented them. The article proposes that it is through this perception of material relations that the Wauja give meaning to skeuomorphic connections in objects.
