Shapes of "culture" and the sacred surplus: heritage formation and pentecostal conversion among the Pataxó indians in Brazil
Exploring the emergence of two cultural forms among the Pataxó Indians from Bahia, Braziltheir recent elaboration on bodily adornment practices and the "rescuing" of their native languagethis article examines the relationship between cultural heritage formation and Pentecostal conversion...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2013]
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Material religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 304-327 |
| Further subjects: | B
aesthetic formation
B Indians B Pentecostalism B Cultural Heritage B Language B PataxÓ B Body |
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| Summary: | Exploring the emergence of two cultural forms among the Pataxó Indians from Bahia, Braziltheir recent elaboration on bodily adornment practices and the "rescuing" of their native languagethis article examines the relationship between cultural heritage formation and Pentecostal conversion. Dwellers of the World Heritage Site of the Discovery Coast and epitomized as the Discovery Indians throughout the late 1990s, the Pataxó have been concurrently converting to Pentecostalism at an ever steadier pace. To the extent that each of these dynamics yields divergent bodies, styles, and aesthetics, I focus on the material interstices between Indianness and Pentecostalism: their critical conflicts, negotiated borrowings, and constructive convergences. I argue that while churches have been all the more seeking to incorporate indigenous cultural forms into their liturgies and doctrinal frames through a project of disenchantment, an indelible source of tension persists, a "surplus" resisting symbolic closurefor one can never be fully sure whether underneath the veneer of things lay "harmless culture" or diabolical power. |
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| Item Description: | falsche Namensform des Autoren im Register: fAndré Bakker |
| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2752/175183413X13730330868951 |