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Creation and Creativity in Lowland South America, 2023

In conclusion we argue that the volume' s chapters show specific Indigenous Lowland South America... more In conclusion we argue that the volume' s chapters show specific Indigenous Lowland South American forms of creativity and summarize their central characteristics in terms of five dimensions: first, the continuity from the creative potentials of mythical times to the present, or between first-and second-order creativity; second, their relational quality and the crucial role played by other-than-human beings as creative agents; third, their generative quality that is based on ideas and the need to reconstruct relationships; fourth, their processual quality that becomes manifest in the importance of transmutation, or intersemiotic translation, between different creative genres, nonlinear forms of temporality, and specific contextual resignifications; and fifth, a specific relationship between the forms of creativity described in myths and those of contemporary creative practices.

Halbmayer & Goletz: Creation and creativity in indigenous lowland South America : anthropological perspectives, 2023

This introduction aims to provide a basis for the local processes of creation and creativity in I... more This introduction aims to provide a basis for the local processes of creation and creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America presented in this book. To do so, it fi rst takes a look at the notion of creation and creativity in Lowland South American anthropology, then outlines recent shifts within the anthropology of creation and creativity, and finally introduces this book’s contributions.

Halbmayer & Goletz. Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America. Anthropological Perspectives, 2023

In Sokorpa, a Yukpa community in the Serranía de Perijá in Northern Colombia, storytellers narrat... more In Sokorpa, a Yukpa community in the Serranía de Perijá in Northern Colombia, storytellers narrate how Unano the maize bringer once brought maize to the Yukpa people and imparted knowledge on its cultivation, harvesting, and processing, as well as on appropriate ways of paying tribute to him. Unano, however, is important not only as part of the origin of maize and maize-related practices but also as a present-day agent whose reproductive, rewarding, and instructive potentials pervade people’s everyday lives. Th e activation of Unano’s creative potentials and the cooperation of people and Unano in the cultivation, harvesting, and processing procedures are essential to the persistence of maize. In this chapter, I consider the joint practices of Unano and the people in Sokorpa as constituting a creative process that ensures the continuous existence
of maize.
The chapter builds on empirical material but pursues a predominantly analytical approach. Based on the analyses I will make three points: fi rst, that the creative process to ensure the continuous existence of
maize is carried out by people and the maize-producing Unano, whereas the maize’s own creative potential is just marginally involved; second, that this creative process builds on mimetic coactivity similar to what Perig Pitrou (2016) has shown for Andean and Mesoamerican agricultural and rainmaking rituals; and third, that the creative process is coordinated and synchronized not only by human ritual action but by Unano himself who plays a crucial role in generating mimetic coactivity

Revista Española de Antropología Americana, 2022

Many studies, even those conducted in the field of the Americas, still argue that graphic communi... more Many studies, even those conducted in the field of the Americas, still argue that graphic communication necessarily builds on coding units of speech. However, in recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the narrowness of this concept by focusing on Indigenous and pre-Columbian societies, who favore(d) non-glottographic systems over written speech. This paper concerns the development of a semiological multidimensional theory and methodology to analyze Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems (GCSs) in Mesoamerica, Amazonia, the Isthmo-Colombian Area and the Central Andes. The aim of this theory and methodology is to understand how and in what ways Indigenous societies communicate and encode knowledge using graphic units. Placing emic concepts and epistemologies increasingly at the center of the investigation comes with a rethinking of Western concepts of writing, and a change of perspective. The proposed model provides access to new analytical dimensions that have not been considered in an integrated way so far. Graphic units are not only studied in relation to each other and on the semantic level, but in the broader context in which they arise. Three examples are used to demonstrate the complexity of graphic communication based on semasiographic principles and test the proposed approach focusing on various forms of Yukpa graphic expressions in Colombia and Venezuela and framed graphic units of the Tiwanaku culture in the Central Andes, Peru.Keywords: graphic communication systems; the indigenous Americas; semiological theory and methodology; decolonizing epistemologies.

Tabula Rasa 36, 2020

This paper examines the oneiric knowledge transmission/reception between the armadillo Kamashrhus... more This paper examines the oneiric knowledge transmission/reception between the armadillo Kamashrhush and the wise woman Diocelina as a specific and highly individual humananimal relationship. In the context of an Anthropology of Dreaming dominated by the notion of soul-travels, this paper discusses the passive and embodied manner of Sokorpa dream experiences shaped by the visit from the other-than-human realm into the dreamer's everyday life. Furthermore, it highlights the cooperative nature of the relationship between Diocelina and Kamashrhush against the backdrop of armadillohuman practices based on (respectful) hunting and avoidance. It proposes ontological similarization as a means for social interactions with other-than-human beings that go without transformation and ontological boundary crossing, elements considered as the core components of interspecies communication in Amazonian anthropological theories.

Tabula Rasa, 36, 2020

Este artículo analiza la transmisión y recepción onírica de saberes entre el armadill... more Este artículo analiza la transmisión y recepción onírica de saberes entre el armadillo Kamashrhush y la mujer sabia Diocelina como una relación humano-animal específica y altamente individual. En el contexto de una antropología del sueño dominada por la noción de viajes del alma, este artículo expone la manera pasiva y encarnada de las experiencias oníricas en Sokorpa configurada por la visita del ámbito no-humano en la vida cotidiana de las personas que están soñando. Además, destaca la naturaleza cooperativa de la relación entre Diocelina y Kamashrhush contra el trasfondo de las prácticas armadillo-humano basadas en la caza (respetuosa) y la evasión. Propone la similarización ontológica como medio para las interacciones sociales con seres no-humanos que suceden sin transformación o cruce de límites ontológicos, elementos que se consideran esenciales de la comunicación entre especies en las teorías antropológicas amazónicas.

Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica, 2020

Sokorpa specialists, called tuwancha – “those who know”, are characterized by their reserved mann... more Sokorpa specialists, called tuwancha – “those who know”, are characterized by their reserved manner in dealing with the other-than-human realm and by the crucial role played by the other-than-human beings in initiating transhuman communication. In a nocturnal visit, these beings transmit their knowledge, thus initiating future specialists and determining the manner they will fulfill their societal duties. The chapter distinguishes between two manifestations of tuwancha that are associated with different transhuman relational modes. The coexistence of these relational modes in Sokorpa socio-cosmology is analyzed in the context of historical processes, sociocultural change, and the negotiation between the familiar and the incoming. The blending of the creator Aponto with the Christian God and the deification of the owner of corn Osema, as well as the emergence of tuwancha-who-preach represent important modifications in Sokorpa transhuman communication.

Booklet by Anne Goletz

Veröffentlichungen der Marburger Ethnographischen Sammlung Bd. 1. , 2018

Mythen regen inhaltlich wie begrifflich zu vielschichtigen Gedanken an und haben zu vielerlei wis... more Mythen regen inhaltlich wie begrifflich zu vielschichtigen Gedanken an und haben zu vielerlei wissenschaftlichen Konzepten und Theorien geführt. Doch wie sehen Mythen in der Praxis aus? Die Ausstellung geht Mythen der südamerikanischen Yukpa nach. Vier Stationen zeigen unterschiedliche Lebensbereiche, in denen Mythen sichtbar werden. Die Besucher*innen können materielle Gegenstände und fotografische Momentaufnahmen betrachten und Erzählungen lauschen. Zugleich gewährt die Ausstellung Einblicke in die Forschungspraxis der Marburger Anthropolog*innen am Fachgebiet Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie. // Tanto en cuanto al contenido como a lo abstracto, los mitos animan a reflexiones complejas y llevaron a múltiples conceptos y teorías científicas. ¿Pero cómo se ven en la práctica? La presente exposición explora los mitos de lxs Yukpa suramericanos. Las cuatro estaciones muestran distintas áreas de la vida cotidiana, en las que se manifiestan los mitos. Lxs visitantes podrán mirar los objetos materiales y las instantáneas fotográficas. También podrán escuchar los relatos contados. Al mismo tiempo, la exposición permite formarse una idea de la práctica investigativa de lxs etnógrafxs del departamento de antropología cultural y social en Marburg.

Exhibition by Anne Goletz

La exposición “La realidad del mito. Mitos del Yukpa de Colombia y Venezuela” fue curada en 2018 ... more La exposición “La realidad del mito. Mitos del Yukpa de Colombia y Venezuela” fue curada en 2018 en colaboración entre la Colección Etnográfica y el proyecto de investigación “Contextualizando la lengua y los mitos de lxs Yukpa ” del Departamento de Antropología Social y Cultural de la Universidad Marburg. Gracias al apoyo de la Zukunftswerkstatt, ahora está disponible en forma virtual bilingüe (alemán / español) y pueda ser visitado en el espacio virtual: https://ilias.uni-marburg.de/goto.php?target=crs_2531140&client_id=UNIMR

Books by Anne Goletz

Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic ... more Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America. The volume shows how people create and reinforce their conditions of being by employing different genres of transgression and by creatively shifting contexts of significance. Local socio-cosmic orders, the interrelation of creative genres (myth, verbal art, song, ritual, and handicrafts), and their changing frames of reference (from communal celebrations to wider political and commercial realms) demonstrate the relational, generative, and processual quality of Amerindian creativity.