Ritual Commensality in the Lower Amazon on the South of Amapá State, Brazil, During the Precolonial Period
Author(s): Jelly Juliane Souza De Lima
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory: Exploring Ontologies of the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In many Amerindian worldviews, commensality pervades to different degrees both mundane and ritual spheres, being a way of caring and building relationships as revealed by available information from ethnology and ethnohistory. Based on these issues, this paper explores the central concepts of body fabrication and ritual commensality as possible ways to interpret two villages in the south of Amapá State, Brazil, in the lower Amazon river, dating to the 8th to 15th centuries AD. The archaeological structures are associated with two distinct cultural complexes, Jari and Koriabo. These cultural complexes present, based on the depositional contexts, a formalization of the ceramic deposition and arrangement related to funerary program. Possible interpretations include that the archaeological structures could be markers of differences and sociabilities related to ancestor worship.
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Ritual Commensality in the Lower Amazon on the South of Amapá State, Brazil, During the Precolonial Period. Jelly Juliane Souza De Lima. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450590)
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Abstract Id(s): 24868