Urn-bodies in the art and archeology from the mouth of the amazon: prerogatives and mishaps of an allegedly post-representational research
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https://doi.org/10.24885/sab.v36i1.988Keywords:
Amazon Archaeology, Post-representational theories, Corporeality, Analysis methodsAbstract
The mouth of the Amazon River has funerary archaeological sites populated by several ceramic bodies. This article presents the research carried out on some types of urn-bodies from contexts in the south of Amapá and islands on its estuarine coast. The idea is to narrate the difficulties of designing and applying a post-representational method of analysis, by which we sought to weave contributions on the indigenous art that flourished in the region until the contact with European fronts. Through this approach, we debate about an artistic and corporeality regime in which mimesis and figurativism are possible devices in the composition of different beings, and not values or visual resources per se.
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