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Art and residence among the Shipibo Indians of Peru: a study in microacculturation
American anthropologist • 82 (1) • Published In 1980 • Pages: 42-71
By: Roe, Peter G..
Abstract
The geometric decorative art of the Shipibo Indians, Peruvian montaña, is produced by women balanced between a cultural imperative for personal innovation and submission to the constraints of traditional style. The experimental commissioning of painted Shipibo textile samplers using a rule-based approach reveals that additional variables in the Deetz-Longacre hypothesis associating female stylistic uniformity with matrilineal descent and matrilocal residence, such as the number of elements and rules used and the highter position in a hierarchy of complexity such solutions occupy, contribute to aesthetic micro-acculturation. That is done in the Shipibo case in a way that belies the presupposition that the mother is always the most important mentor in a girl's art, while supporting this archaeological theory's prediction that a group of coresiding females produces relatively homogeneous art (p. 42).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field Date
- 1975-1978
- Coverage Date
- 1975-1978
- Coverage Place
- village of San Francisco de Yarinacocha, near Pucallpa, Peru
- Notes
- Peter G. Roe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-71)
- LCCN
- 17015424
- LCSH
- Shipibo-Conibo Indians