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  • 标题:Hierarchy, symmetry, and the xavante spiritual life cycle
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  • 作者:Welch, James R.
  • 期刊名称:Horizontes Antropológicos
  • 印刷版ISSN:0104-7183
  • 电子版ISSN:1806-9983
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 卷号:16
  • 期号:34
  • 页码:235-259
  • DOI:10.1590/S0104-71832010000200011
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social - IFCH-UFRGS
  • 摘要:

    Xavante society, well-known for its dual structural aspects, provides the best documented example of a formal age-group system in South America. Although the basic features of the Xavante secular age-group system were previously described, a second age-group system in the spiritual domain is presented here for the first time. In this paper, I describe the Xavante spiritual life cycle, including a structural dynamic whereby age sets pass through age grades in alternate fashion, allocating them between two moieties. That basic morphology is shared with the secular age-group system and attests to a Xavante logic of hierarchy and symmetry as mutually constructed and non-contradictory. Interactions between the spiritual and secular age-group systems manifest in the daily experience of spiritual participants in ways that suggest plurality and contingency are essential features of Xavante social organization.

  • 关键词:Brasil;organização social;sistemas de grupos de idade;Xavante
  • 其他关键词:age-group systems;Brazil;social organization;Xavante
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