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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/155511
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Carrefour des arts et des sciences\, 31
 50\, rue Jean-Brillant \, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1N8
SUMMARY:Music\, Cosmology and Philosophy in Lowland South America...
DESCRIPTION:Conférencier : Rafael José de Menezes Bastos\, Departamento d
 e Antropologia\, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina\, BrésilThe Kamay
 urá (Apùap) system of classification\, identification and nomination of 
 the musical-acoustic domain is comprehensive\, sophisticated and powerful.
  These Indians inhabit the Upper Xingu region of Central Brazil and speak 
 a Tupi-Guarani language. The system in question involves communication wit
 h ‘humans’ and ‘non-humans’ (‘spirits’\, ‘animals’ and ‘
 inanimate beings’) and is the basis for what I have called world hearing
 \, a worldview whose cosmological and philosophical primacy is phono-audit
 ory.The distinction between ‘human’ and ‘non-human’ as established
  by the Western world (typically informed by Enlightenment thought) makes 
 no sense to these Indians\, for whom these beings can be situated at the s
 ame ontological level. This invalidates our three-way split between ‘nat
 ure’\, ‘culture’ and ‘supernature’. The basis of their musical-a
 coustic system is the virtuosic perception and ability of the performers (
 using voice and musical instruments)\, which enable the Kamayurá to conve
 rse with ‘animals’\, ‘spirits’ and other beings\, and listen to th
 eir sound productions\, often taken by Westerners to be inaudible or even 
 nonexistent. This paper develops an earlier text from 1999\, revisiting th
 e Kamayurá cited system and comparing it to those reported in other areas
  of lowland South America. It briefly discusses the potential consequences
  for current debates on the relational modes between ‘humans’ and othe
 r beings\, and suggests that the Kamayurá system forms the basis for a bi
 opolitics of sensoriality without\, or\, better\, against modernity. The t
 ext calls for new research into acoustic-musical perception in the region 
 (and into perception in general)\, the universe of ritual\, and their conn
 ections with the worlds of power and politics.Conférence organisée par l
 e Département d'anthropologie de l'Université de Montréal
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