Abstract

CESARINO, Pedro de Niemeyer. Poetics and politics in Lowland South America: the chief’s speech. Etnográfica [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.1, pp.5-26. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8109.

This paper aims to explore the politics involved in the chief’s speech in Amerindian societies of Lowland South America. A comparative approach of ethnographic studies will be mobilized to understand a verbal genre characterized by an emphasis in ritual intensity and by a special production of meaning. The objective is to apprehend Amerindian interrelations between politics, shamanism and modes of enunciation.

Keywords : chief’s speech; Amerindian politics; poetics; performance; enunciation.

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