Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

The indigenous languages of South America reveal visions of worlds present, past and future. They are also the vehicle for a way of thinking that unites and engages humans, the forest and living beings in a community. Since time immemorial, the power of speech has been the creative force capable of weaving and transforming worlds. Speech is action and relationship with existing beings. Often, the words that resonate are those of spirits. Discourses on the origin of the world and ritual chants make their voices heard. What do these voices say ? Who are their translators ? How does the poetics of native voices shape these invisible worlds ? What transformative power do ritual languages have in the spirituality of South America's indigenous peoples ? How can we define the attitude of listening and the gesture that characterizes the transmission of this knowledge ?

Daiara Tukano

Daiara Hori Figueroa Sampaio or Duhigô is Tukano (Yé'pá Mahsã), from the Eremiri Hãusiro Parameri clan, originally from the Upper Rio Negro region, Brazilian Amazonia. She is a visual artist and curator of the Nhe'ē Porã exhibition  : memory and transformation. She holds a master's degree in human rights from the University of Brasília (UnB) and conducts research on indigenous peoples' right to memory and truth. She represents indigenous peoples on Brazil's National Council for Culture and plays a central role in the debate on indigenous art, museums, indigenous collections and restitutions in Brazil and worldwide.

Philippe Descola

Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Descola is one of the leading anthropologists of his generation. A graduate in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he obtained his doctorate in anthropology from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, under the supervision of Claude Lévi-Strauss, with a thesis based on his fieldwork among the Achuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon between 1976 and 1979. From 1987 onwards, he taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and, in 2000, was appointed Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France. In 2012, he was awarded the gold medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His research focuses on the ways in which nature is socialized, the formation of the notions of " nature " and " culture " and the different ontologies that derive from them. His books include La Nature domestique (1986), Les Lances du crépuscule (1993), Par-delà nature et culture (2005), Diversité des natures, diversité des cultures (2010), La Composition des mondes (2014) and Les Formes du visible (2021). He has been invited on several occasions to the University of São Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Montreal, the London School of Economics, Cambridge, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Uppsala and Leuven. He has lectured at over forty universities and academic institutions abroad, including the Beatrice Blackwood Lecture in Oxford, the George Lurcy Lecture in Chicago, the Munro Lecture in Edinburgh, the Radcliffe-Brown Lecture at the British Academy, the Clifford Geertz Memorial Lecture in Princeton, the Jensen Lecture in Frankfurt and the Victor Goldschmidt Lecture in Heidelberg. He chaired the Société des Américanistes and the Scientific Committee of the Fyssen Foundation from 2001 to 2009, and is a member of numerous other scientific committees.

Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca

Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca is a linguistic anthropologist, director of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS), and holder of the Religions des Indiens Sud-Américains : sociétés des Basses Terreschair at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE). A specialist in Quechua languages, she devotes her research to the analysis of ritual voice and the learning of Amerindian verbal arts. In the course of her investigations in Amazonia and the Andes, she has studied the secret languages of shamans, the relationship between orality and writing, and the relationship between shamanism and hunting. Her work focuses on the relationships between thought and language, perception and ritual action (Guérir, Tuer, L'Herne 2017 ;Livres sorciers, Gradhiva, 2021 ;Lévi-Strauss. Penser le monde autrement, Cahiers d'anthropologie sociale 2022). She heads the " Anthropologie linguistique " team she founded with Pierre Déléage at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale. She is President of the Société des Amis des Sciences Religieuses à l'EPHE-PSL (SASR).

Majoí Favero Gongora

D. in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (USP), with a specialization in Amerindian ethnology. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at USP. She is an associate researcher at the Center for Amerindian Studies-USP, a collaborator of the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), a member of the Pro-Yanomami and Ye'kwana network and of the Front  3de Fevereiro. Since 2013, she has been working alongside the Ye'kwana people and on initiatives with the Yanomami Land Peoples (Roraima, Brazil). In recent years, she has devoted herself to documentation work with a collaborative approach, such as the Aaseesewaadiproject  :documenting Ye'kwana songs (Museu do Índio/FUNAI and UNESCO). She also coordinated the publication of Cercos e Resistências : Povos Indígenas Isolados na Amazônia Brasileira (2019). She curates initiatives linked to the dissemination of indigenous peoples' cultures and the strengthening of their struggles in Brazil. She recently coordinated the research and co-curated the exhibition Nhe'ẽ Porã : memory and transformation, curated by Daiara Tukano.

Speaker(s)

Daiara Tukano

Visual artist and curator of the exhibition Nhe'ẽ Porã: memory and transformation

Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca

Director, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (LAS), Collège de France, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Chair of South American Indian Religions: Lowland Societies

Majoí Favero Gongora

Postdoctoral researcher at USP and co-curator of the exhibition Nhe'ẽ Porã: memory and transformation