Una mirada antropológica a la estética y personificación de los objetos. El caso del berimbau en la capoeira angola en Brasil

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  • Sergio Rodríguez Varela Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-Distrito Federal, México

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https://doi.org/10.29340/40.260

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This article presents an analysis of aesthetic objects from an anthropological perspective based on the theoretical reflections developed mainly by Alfred Gell and Marilyn Strathern. Positioned as an alternative of some ideas coming from structural semiotics, the central argument is based on the relational capacity of the objects in order to become and transform themselves into persons or subjects within a cultural context. This personification potential is sustained ethnographically by describing the uses, representations and perceptions made about the berimbau, a music instrument of the ritual of capoeira Angola in Brazil.

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Published

2013-12-16

Issue

Número 40 (2012)

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ESQUINAS

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Una mirada antropológica a la estética y personificación de los objetos. El caso del berimbau en la capoeira angola en Brasil. (2013). Desacatos. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 40, 127-140. https://doi.org/10.29340/40.260