Conclusion. Creation, Creativity, and the Genres of Transmutation and Transhuman Communication

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Creation and the Original Conditions of Being
6. Chapter 1. Creation, Creativity, and the Times of Origin: Th e Multiplicity of Transformative and Transcreational Processes in Amazonia and the Isthmo-Colombian Area 23
7. Chapter 2. Th e Maize Bringer’s Creative Potentials: How People and Maize Coactively Ensure the Continuous Existence of Maize in the Yukpa Territory of Sokorpa, Northern Colombia 49
8. Chapter 3. What Does It Take to Be a Singer? Ritual and Creativity among the Pume People of Venezuela 74
9. Part II. Creating and the Genres of Transmutation
10. Chapter 4. How to Charge a Voice with Power? Transmuting Nonhuman Creativity into Vocal Creations in the Western Amazon 99
11. Chapter 5. From the Songs without Names to the Stories inside a Name: On the Poetic Creation of Normativity among the Ayoreo from the Northern Paraguayan Chaco 124
12. Chapter 6. The Chant-Owner and His Music: Musical Creativity and Verbal Artistry in the Ritual Life of an Amazonian Community 153
13. Chapter 7. How to Transform the World(s): Generating Transactive Timescapes through Myths, Songs, and Magic Formulas in the Guianas 173
14. Part III. Creativity and Shifting the Context of Signification
15. Chapter 8. Basketry, Mythology, and Shamanism in the Amerindian Cultures of Venezuela: An Ancestral “Art” Facing Innovation 201
16. Chapter 9. Yuruparí’s Disappearance: Women’s Laughter and Organology without Musical Instruments in Vaupés 231
17. Conclusion. Creation, Creativity, and the Genres of Transmutation and Transhuman Communication 253
18. Index 273