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Author: Stephen P. Hugh-Jones

Patrimony, Publishing, and Politics: Books as Ritual Objects in Northwest Amazonia

Stephen P. Hugh-Jones Published: 2020-07-20 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

With particular reference to works by Tukano and Desana authors, this paper examines some of the cultural and historical factors that underlie the unique propensity of indigenous peoples of Northwest Amazonia to publish their narrative histories in…

Good Reasons or Bad Conscience: A Postscript

Stephen P. Hugh-Jones Published: 2020-07-20 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

Published in French in 1996, the original article for which this comprises a post-script set indigenous Amazonians’ attitudes to meat alongside those of Euro-Americans. With the accelerating deforestation of Amazonia linked with the cultivation of …

Good Reasons or Bad Conscience? Or Why Some Indian Peoples of Amazonia Are Ambivalent about Eating Meat

Stephen P. Hugh-Jones Published: 2020-07-20 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

Originally written for a conference on meat attended by farmers, anthropologists, people involved in cultural affairs, and other members of the public, and seeking to avoid emphasis on cultural difference, this paper explores common ground between …

The Origin of Night and the Dance of Time: Ritual and Material Culture in Northwest Amazonia

Stephen P. Hugh-Jones Published: 2020-07-20 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

Based on a survey of published material complemented by original fieldwork, this paper shows that Northwest Amazonian Arawakan, Tukanoan and Makuan stories of the Origin of Night form parts of a single, more inclusive myth about the sequential crea…

Thinking through Tubes: Flowing H/air and Synaesthesia

Stephen P. Hugh-Jones Published: 2020-07-20 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

The tube, as both object and concept, has cropped up from time to time in the ethnography of lowland South America, most notably in Rivière and Lévi-Strauss’s discussions of blowpipes, hair tubes and pottery and in Hill and Wright’s writings on Yur…

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