“SOBRE TORBELLINOS Y OTROS AIRES
“WHIRLWINDS AND OTHER AIRS

WINDS AND POWER AMONG GUAYCURÚ OF CHACO”

Author(s): Alejandro Martin López
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Atmospheric phenomena; Chaco; Guaycurú; Jesuits
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we aim to address some Jesuit testimonies of the eighteenth century about the conceptions of atmospheric phenomena from the guaycurú Argentinian Chaco Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. We do this by using a contemporary ethnography perspective as a conceptual model. Our work aims to show that they think atmospheric phenomena are relevant for guaycurú people in terms of “signs” or evidence of intentions and wishes of powerful human and non-human beings. To observe these signals is to “read” intentions, desires, appetites, and wills.

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