AMERINDIAN RELATIONAL OBJECTS: THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF KADIWÉU INDIANS ART IN A BRAZILIAN SOAP OPERA

Abstract

This work examines the role of ceramics in Kadiwéu social life. The Kadiwéu are Amerindians who live in the southern part of Pantanal Matogrossense, Brazil. The relations between art and social world will be described and analyzed through ethnographic examples, showing how the Kadiwéu understand their ceramic as a special way of relating to the external world, markedly the “world of the “whites”. This relational understanding of objects also points out, in a reflexive and critical manner, to crucial aspects of western conceptions of human relations.

Keywords

• arte ameríndia
• cerâmica
• índios kadiwéu
• objetos relacionais.