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Title:Life, visions and spirits of a shaman
Shaman4
Linguistic, Historical and Ethnographical Documentation of the Upper Xingu Carib Language or Kuikuro (Brazil)
Contributor:Aitsehü
Carlos Fausto
Contributor (consultant):Takuma
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2002-10-15
Description:Session recorded by the Kuikuro video team in the house of one of the Kuikuro shamans. One of the young members of the video team interviews the shaman.
The Project "Linguistic, Historical and Ethnographical Documentation of the Upper Xingu Carib Language or Kuikuro (Brazil)"began in December 200 in the context of the DOBES Program supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung and with the technical support of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen).
This file was generated from an IMDI 1.9 file and transformed to IMDI 3.0. The substructure of Genre is replaced by two elements named "Genre" and "SubGenre". The original content of Genre substructure was: Interactional = 'interview', Discursive = 'explanation', Performance = 'narrative (life story)'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
The young Takumã, member of the Kuikuro video team, asks to one of the village shamans what's happening when he smokes his tobacco cigars, what he sees. Aitsehü, the shaman, answers telling about the itseke (suopernatural beings) he sees during the transe caused by the ingestion of the tobacco. He tells how he became a shaman, a short story of his initiation. At the end he explains the characteristics of one particular iseke, the Hyper-Hummingbird, responsible for the sikness of Tapualu, a Kalapalo woman, as well for the performance of the Hugagü ritual. In the background, it is possible to hear the sound of the atanga flutes, played in the daytime during the realization of the Hugagü feast.
Takumã is a young man, son of Samuagü and Tapualu, grand-son of Tugupé and Kamihú, one of the Kuikuro video-makers. He learned to read and write at the village school.
Aitsehü in a shaman, son-in-law of Agatsipá (Ijali), married with his daughter Kusaí, father of Taliko (health agent), Kanagi, Talã.
Carlos Fausto is ethnologist and permanent consultant of the Project. Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (National Museum). Researcher of the National Counsel for Scientific and Technological development (CNPq). He is doing field research among the Kuikuro since 1998 and he realized researches on other amazonian indigenous groups (Parakanã, a Tupi-Guarani group leaving in the state of Pará, Brazil).
Format:video/x-mpeg1
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3878-1
REF II/76417
Publisher:Bruna Franchetto
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Subject:Kuikúro-Kalapálo language
Subject (ISO639):kui
Type:video

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Citation: Takuma (consultant); Aitsehü; Carlos Fausto. 2002-10-15. Bruna Franchetto.
Terms: area_Americas country_BR iso639_kui

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Country: Brazil
Area: Americas


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