You Are What You Speak, or Are You? Identity, language, sociocultural change, and the Pa'ikwené (Palikur)
Abstract
Alain Passes describes the relationships between identity, language and recent sociocultural developments within the Pa'ikwené communities. He argues that ‘language loss is not identity loss’ and that identity can be manifested in many different dimensions. He uses recent observations of recent social phenomena among Pa'ikwené to support his ideas.
Short description by Michal Gilewski
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The article is based on a paper presented at CIASE, department of social anthropology,
Unwersity of St. Andrews, Scotland, 17 April, 2003.
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CAMPBELL Alan T., 1989, To Sąuare with Genesis: causal statements and shamanic ideas in Wayapi, Edinburgh University Press.
CAMPBELL Alan T., 1995, Getting to Know Wai-Wai, Routledge, London.
CAPIBERIBE Artionka, 2001, Os Palikur e o Cristianismo, Masters Dissertation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
DELEUZE Gilles and GUATTARI Felix, 1972, IJAnti-Oedipe: capitalisme et schizophrenie, Editions de Minuit, Paris.
DREYFUS Simone, 1981, Le Peuple de la riviere du milieu, esąuisse pour 1’etude de 1’espace social palikur, in: Orients pour Georges Condominas, Sudestasie Privat, Paris.
DREYFUS Simone, 1983-84, Historical and Political Anthropological Interconnections: the multilinguistic indigenous polity of the ‘Carib’ Islands and mainland coast from the 16th to the 18th century, in: Antropológica 59-62, pp. 39-55.
FREIRE Paulo 1977[1972], Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. M. Bergman Ramos, Penguin, Harmondsworth.
GLISSANT Edouard, 1990, Poetiąue de la relation (Poetiąue III), Gallimard, Paris.
GLISSANT Edouard, 1996, Introduction a une poetiąue du divers, Gallimard, Paris
GLISSANT Edouard, 1997, Traite du tout-monde (Poćtiąue IV), Gallimard, Paris.
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GOW Peter, 1991, Of Mixed Blood, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
GOW Peter, 2000, Helpless: the affective preconditions of Piro social life, in: The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, eds. J. Overing, A. Passes, Routledge, London and New York.
GOW Peter, 2001, Ex-Cocama: transforming identities in Peruvian Amazonia. Paper presented at department of social anthropology, 29 June, London School of Economics.
GRENAND Franęoise and GRENAND, Pierre, 1987, La Cóte d’Amapa, de la bouche de 1’Amazone a la baie d’Oyapock a travers la tradition orale palikur, in: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (Serie Antropologia) 3(1), pp. 1-77.
GUMPERZ John, 1982, Discourse Strategies, Cambridge University Press, New York.
HAGĆGE Claude, 1991, UHomme de paroles, Folio Fayard, Paris.
HANNERZ Ulf, 1987, The World in Creolization, in: Africa 57(4), pp. 546-59.
HEELAS Paul, 1984, Explaining Ritual: the forces of emotion or the demands of reason, unpublished ms, department of religious studies, University of Lancaster.
HERDER Johann Gottfried, 1986[1772], On the Origin of Language, eds. J. Moran, A. Gode, University of Chicago Press.
HILL Jane H. and HILL, Keith C., 1986, Speaking Mexicano: the dynamics of syncretic language in Central Mexico, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
HILL Jonathan D., 1996, ed. History, Power, and Identity: ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.
HILL Jonathan D. and SANTOS-GRANERO, Fernando, 2002, Introduction, in: Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, eds. J.D. Hill, F. Santos-Granero, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
HUGH-JONES Stephen, 1992, Yesterday’s Luxuries, Tomorrow’s Necessities: business and barter in Northwest Amazonia, in: Barter, Exchange and Value: an anthropological approach, eds. C. Humphrey, S. Hugh-Jones, Cambridge University Press.
HUGH-JONES Stephen, 1994, Shamans, Prophets, Priests and Pastors, in: Shamanism,
History and the State, eds. N. Thomas, C. Humphrey, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
HYMES Dell, 1979, Sapir, Competence, Voices, in: lndividual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior, eds. C. Fillmore et al., Academic Press, New York.
JACKSON Jean, 1983, The Fish People: linguistic exogamy and Tukanoan identity in Northwestern Amazonia, Cambridge University Press.
KULICK Don, 1992, Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: socialization, self and syncretism in a Papua New Guinea village, Cambridge University Press.
KULICK Don, 1993, Speaking as a Woman: structure and gender in domestic arguments in a New Guinean village, in: Cultural Anthropology 8(4), pp. 510-41.
KULICK Don, 1998, Anger, Gender, Language Shift and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinea Village, in: Language Ideologies: practice and theory, eds. B. Schieffelin et al., Oxford University Press.
LAGROU Elsje Maria, 1998, Cashinahua Cosmovision: a perspectival approach to identity and alterity, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St Andrews.
McCALLUM Cecilia, 1990, Language, Kinship and Politics in Amazonia, in: Man 25(3), pp. 412-33.
NASH June, 1979, We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines, University of Columbia Press, New York.
NIMUENDAJU Curt, 1971 [1926], Die Palikur Indianer und ihre Nachbarn, unpublished French translation by C. Jousse, (Original: Goteborgs Kungl. Vet. Vitt. Handligar 31-2). ' ' ”
OVERING Joanna, 1992, Wandering in the Market and the Forest: an Amazonian theory of production and exchange, in: Contesting Markets: analyses of ideology, discourse and practice, ed. R. Dilley, Edinburgh University Press.
OVERING Joanna, 1996a. Under the Sky of the Domesticated: in praise of the everyday.
Inaugural lecture for the professorship and chair of social anthropology, 4 December, University of St Andrews.
OVERING Joanna, 1996b, Who Is the Mightiest of Them Ali? Jaguar and conquistador in Piaroa images of alterity and identity, in: Monsters, Tricksters and Sacred Cows, ed. J. Arnold, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.
OVERING Joanna and PASSES Alan, 2000a, Introduction, in: The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, eds. J. Overing, A. Passes, Routledge, London and New York.
OVERING Joanna and PASSES Alan, 2000b, eds. The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, Routledge, London and New York.
PASSES Alan, 1998, The Hearer, the Hunter, and the Agouti Head: aspects of intercommunication and conviviality among the Pa’ikwene (Palikur) of French Guiana, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St Andrews.
PASSES Alan, 2000, The Value of Working and Speaking Together: a facet of Pa’ikwene (Palikur) conviviality, in: The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, eds. J. Overing, A. Passes, Routledge, London and New York.
PASSES Alan, in press, The Place of Politics: powerful speech and women speakers in everyday Pa’ikwenś (Palikur) life, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(1).
PASSES Alan, 2001, ‘ArreSte! Laisse! Donnę!’ (‘Stop it! Leave it! Give it!’), or, eąuality, power, and the comical imperative in indigenous French Guyana. Paper presented
at workshop, The Ethnography of Laughter, Joy, Humour and Play, CIASE, 18 June, University of St Andrews.
PASSES Alan, 2002, Both Omphalos and Margin: on how the Pa’ikwene (Palikur) see themselves to be at the center and on the edge at one and the same time, in: Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, eds. J.D. Hill, F. Santos-Granero, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
PASSES Alan, 2004, The Gathering of the Clans: the making of the Palikur naone, in: Ethnohistory 51(2).
RAMOS Alcida, 1988, Indian Voices: contact experienced and expressed, in: Rethinking History and Myth: South American perspectives of the past, ed. J.D. Hill, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
RAPPORT Nigel and OVERING, Joanna, 2000, Social and Cultural Anthropology: the key concepts. ROutledge, London and New York.
ROSENGREN Dan, 2000, Matsigenka Notions of Self and Other: conseąuences for interethnic relations. Paper presented at conference Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 24-26 May, Panama City.
SANTOS-GRANERO Fernando, 1991, The Power of Love: the morał use of knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru, Athlone, London.
SANTOS-GRANERO Fernando, 2002, The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America, in: Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, eds. J.D. Hill, F. Santos-Granero, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
SAUSSURE Ferdinand de, 1966[ 1915), Course in General Linguistics, trans. W. Baskin, McGraw-Hill, New York.
SCHIEFFELIN Bambi, 1990, The Give and Take of Everyday Life: language socialization of Kaluli children, Cambridge University Press.
SCOTTON C.M., 1982, The Possibility of Codeswitching: motivation for maintaining multilingualism, in: Anthropological Linguistics 24(4), pp. 432-45.
TAYLOR Charles, 1985, Humań Agency and Language, philosophical papers I, Cambridge University Press.
THOMAS David, 1982, Order Without Government: the society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
VIVEIROS DE CASTRO Eduardo, 1998, Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 4(3), pp. 469-88.
WERBNER Richard, 1989, Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey: the process, form and organization of religious movement, Manchester University Press.
WILLIAMS Raymond, 1976, Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society, Fontana, London.
ASTURIAS Miguel Angel, 1949, Hombres de Maiz, Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires.
BARTOLOME Miguel Alberto, 2001, Etnias y naciones, la construcción civilizatoria en Amćrica Latina, in: Estudios Latinoamericanos 21, pp. 5-21.
BAUMAN Richard, 1983, Let Your Words Be Few: symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers, Cambridge University Press.
BAUMANN Gerd, 1987, National Integration and Local Integrity, the Miri of the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan, Clarendon, Oxford.
BELAUNDE OLSCHEWSKI Luisa Elvira, 1992, Gender, Commensality and Community among the Airo-Pai of Western Amazonia, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London.
BRINTON Daniel, 1891, The American Race: a linguistic classification and ethnographic description of the native tribes of North and South America, N.D.C. Hodges, New York.
BUTT COLSON Audrey, 1985, Routes of Knowledge: an aspect of regional integration in the circum-Roraima area of the Guiana Highlands, in: Antropológica 63-64, pp. 103-149.
CAMPBELL Alan T., 1989, To Sąuare with Genesis: causal statements and shamanic ideas in Wayapi, Edinburgh University Press.
CAMPBELL Alan T., 1995, Getting to Know Wai-Wai, Routledge, London.
CAPIBERIBE Artionka, 2001, Os Palikur e o Cristianismo, Masters Dissertation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
DELEUZE Gilles and GUATTARI Felix, 1972, IJAnti-Oedipe: capitalisme et schizophrenie, Editions de Minuit, Paris.
DREYFUS Simone, 1981, Le Peuple de la riviere du milieu, esąuisse pour 1’etude de 1’espace social palikur, in: Orients pour Georges Condominas, Sudestasie Privat, Paris.
DREYFUS Simone, 1983-84, Historical and Political Anthropological Interconnections: the multilinguistic indigenous polity of the ‘Carib’ Islands and mainland coast from the 16th to the 18th century, in: Antropológica 59-62, pp. 39-55.
FREIRE Paulo 1977[1972], Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. M. Bergman Ramos, Penguin, Harmondsworth.
GLISSANT Edouard, 1990, Poetiąue de la relation (Poetiąue III), Gallimard, Paris.
GLISSANT Edouard, 1996, Introduction a une poetiąue du divers, Gallimard, Paris
GLISSANT Edouard, 1997, Traite du tout-monde (Poćtiąue IV), Gallimard, Paris.
GLISSANT Edouard, No Datę, De la poetiąue de la relation au tout-monde. Internet interview with Edouard Glissant by Avner Perez, http://le-village.ifrance.com/ALALAIA/ glissant.htm
GOW Peter, 1991, Of Mixed Blood, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
GOW Peter, 2000, Helpless: the affective preconditions of Piro social life, in: The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, eds. J. Overing, A. Passes, Routledge, London and New York.
GOW Peter, 2001, Ex-Cocama: transforming identities in Peruvian Amazonia. Paper presented at department of social anthropology, 29 June, London School of Economics.
GRENAND Franęoise and GRENAND, Pierre, 1987, La Cóte d’Amapa, de la bouche de 1’Amazone a la baie d’Oyapock a travers la tradition orale palikur, in: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (Serie Antropologia) 3(1), pp. 1-77.
GUMPERZ John, 1982, Discourse Strategies, Cambridge University Press, New York.
HAGĆGE Claude, 1991, UHomme de paroles, Folio Fayard, Paris.
HANNERZ Ulf, 1987, The World in Creolization, in: Africa 57(4), pp. 546-59.
HEELAS Paul, 1984, Explaining Ritual: the forces of emotion or the demands of reason, unpublished ms, department of religious studies, University of Lancaster.
HERDER Johann Gottfried, 1986[1772], On the Origin of Language, eds. J. Moran, A. Gode, University of Chicago Press.
HILL Jane H. and HILL, Keith C., 1986, Speaking Mexicano: the dynamics of syncretic language in Central Mexico, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
HILL Jonathan D., 1996, ed. History, Power, and Identity: ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.
HILL Jonathan D. and SANTOS-GRANERO, Fernando, 2002, Introduction, in: Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, eds. J.D. Hill, F. Santos-Granero, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
HUGH-JONES Stephen, 1992, Yesterday’s Luxuries, Tomorrow’s Necessities: business and barter in Northwest Amazonia, in: Barter, Exchange and Value: an anthropological approach, eds. C. Humphrey, S. Hugh-Jones, Cambridge University Press.
HUGH-JONES Stephen, 1994, Shamans, Prophets, Priests and Pastors, in: Shamanism,
History and the State, eds. N. Thomas, C. Humphrey, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
HYMES Dell, 1979, Sapir, Competence, Voices, in: lndividual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior, eds. C. Fillmore et al., Academic Press, New York.
JACKSON Jean, 1983, The Fish People: linguistic exogamy and Tukanoan identity in Northwestern Amazonia, Cambridge University Press.
KULICK Don, 1992, Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: socialization, self and syncretism in a Papua New Guinea village, Cambridge University Press.
KULICK Don, 1993, Speaking as a Woman: structure and gender in domestic arguments in a New Guinean village, in: Cultural Anthropology 8(4), pp. 510-41.
KULICK Don, 1998, Anger, Gender, Language Shift and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinea Village, in: Language Ideologies: practice and theory, eds. B. Schieffelin et al., Oxford University Press.
LAGROU Elsje Maria, 1998, Cashinahua Cosmovision: a perspectival approach to identity and alterity, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St Andrews.
McCALLUM Cecilia, 1990, Language, Kinship and Politics in Amazonia, in: Man 25(3), pp. 412-33.
NASH June, 1979, We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines, University of Columbia Press, New York.
NIMUENDAJU Curt, 1971 [1926], Die Palikur Indianer und ihre Nachbarn, unpublished French translation by C. Jousse, (Original: Goteborgs Kungl. Vet. Vitt. Handligar 31-2). ' ' ”
OVERING Joanna, 1992, Wandering in the Market and the Forest: an Amazonian theory of production and exchange, in: Contesting Markets: analyses of ideology, discourse and practice, ed. R. Dilley, Edinburgh University Press.
OVERING Joanna, 1996a. Under the Sky of the Domesticated: in praise of the everyday.
Inaugural lecture for the professorship and chair of social anthropology, 4 December, University of St Andrews.
OVERING Joanna, 1996b, Who Is the Mightiest of Them Ali? Jaguar and conquistador in Piaroa images of alterity and identity, in: Monsters, Tricksters and Sacred Cows, ed. J. Arnold, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.
OVERING Joanna and PASSES Alan, 2000a, Introduction, in: The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, eds. J. Overing, A. Passes, Routledge, London and New York.
OVERING Joanna and PASSES Alan, 2000b, eds. The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, Routledge, London and New York.
PASSES Alan, 1998, The Hearer, the Hunter, and the Agouti Head: aspects of intercommunication and conviviality among the Pa’ikwene (Palikur) of French Guiana, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St Andrews.
PASSES Alan, 2000, The Value of Working and Speaking Together: a facet of Pa’ikwene (Palikur) conviviality, in: The Anthropology of Love and Anger: the aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia, eds. J. Overing, A. Passes, Routledge, London and New York.
PASSES Alan, in press, The Place of Politics: powerful speech and women speakers in everyday Pa’ikwenś (Palikur) life, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(1).
PASSES Alan, 2001, ‘ArreSte! Laisse! Donnę!’ (‘Stop it! Leave it! Give it!’), or, eąuality, power, and the comical imperative in indigenous French Guyana. Paper presented
at workshop, The Ethnography of Laughter, Joy, Humour and Play, CIASE, 18 June, University of St Andrews.
PASSES Alan, 2002, Both Omphalos and Margin: on how the Pa’ikwene (Palikur) see themselves to be at the center and on the edge at one and the same time, in: Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, eds. J.D. Hill, F. Santos-Granero, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
PASSES Alan, 2004, The Gathering of the Clans: the making of the Palikur naone, in: Ethnohistory 51(2).
RAMOS Alcida, 1988, Indian Voices: contact experienced and expressed, in: Rethinking History and Myth: South American perspectives of the past, ed. J.D. Hill, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
RAPPORT Nigel and OVERING, Joanna, 2000, Social and Cultural Anthropology: the key concepts. ROutledge, London and New York.
ROSENGREN Dan, 2000, Matsigenka Notions of Self and Other: conseąuences for interethnic relations. Paper presented at conference Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 24-26 May, Panama City.
SANTOS-GRANERO Fernando, 1991, The Power of Love: the morał use of knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru, Athlone, London.
SANTOS-GRANERO Fernando, 2002, The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America, in: Comparative Arawakan Histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia, eds. J.D. Hill, F. Santos-Granero, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
SAUSSURE Ferdinand de, 1966[ 1915), Course in General Linguistics, trans. W. Baskin, McGraw-Hill, New York.
SCHIEFFELIN Bambi, 1990, The Give and Take of Everyday Life: language socialization of Kaluli children, Cambridge University Press.
SCOTTON C.M., 1982, The Possibility of Codeswitching: motivation for maintaining multilingualism, in: Anthropological Linguistics 24(4), pp. 432-45.
TAYLOR Charles, 1985, Humań Agency and Language, philosophical papers I, Cambridge University Press.
THOMAS David, 1982, Order Without Government: the society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
VIVEIROS DE CASTRO Eduardo, 1998, Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 4(3), pp. 469-88.
WERBNER Richard, 1989, Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey: the process, form and organization of religious movement, Manchester University Press.
WILLIAMS Raymond, 1976, Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society, Fontana, London.
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2003-12-31
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Passes, A. (2003). You Are What You Speak, or Are You? Identity, language, sociocultural change, and the Pa’ikwené (Palikur). Estudios Latinoamericanos, 23, 91-108. https://doi.org/10.36447/Estudios2003.v23.art5
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