« Qu’est-ce qu’un blanc ? » : une contre-enquête Kali’na
If we know the way in which the Occident has, over the centuries, built an image of the American Savage, there has been little questioning about the way the indigenous people understood the arrival of this strange part of mankind. The intrusion of the whites posed to the Amerindians classification p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Socio-anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/3319 |
| Summary: | If we know the way in which the Occident has, over the centuries, built an image of the American Savage, there has been little questioning about the way the indigenous people understood the arrival of this strange part of mankind. The intrusion of the whites posed to the Amerindians classification problems of the same order as those who nourished the European debate on the nature of the American Man. What were these beings for the Kali’na of the Guyanas? What place could they occupy in the taxonomic systems that organized the known world? A representation of these first contacts between the Kali’na and the Europeans is delivered to us in a number of stories that can be collected from the older ones. Together, these narratives draw several figures of the white, fixed in the Kali’na memory. They follow the outlines of a painful story and nourish until today representations, judgments and behaviours. |
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| ISSN: | 1276-8707 1773-018X |