Through the study of form, we explore how relations constitutepersons for the Huni Kuin of Western Amazonia. Shamanistic song, andthe role in it of patterned design, reveals a specific aesthetics that emphasizes processes of becoming, transformation, and figure/ground reversal. Since bodily substances and actions of others affect the ‘thinking body’, well-being depends on making visible the relational network that exists inside and outside one’s embodied self. An aesthetic battlefield unfolds where the doubles of ingested substances invert the predatory relation and come to envelop the ‘eye soul’ of the one who ingested them with their design and ornaments. This setting allows us to address the fractal quality of personhood and the permanent disequilibrium between symmetrical and asymmetrical relations in Amazonia.

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在亚马逊西部学习看东西

通过对形式的研究，我们探讨了关系如何构成西亚马逊流域的 Huni Kuin 的人。萨满教歌曲以及图案设计在其中的作用，揭示了一种特定的美学，强调形成、转变和图形/背景反转的过程。由于身体物质和他人的行为会影响“思考的身体”，因此幸福取决于使存在于一个人的具体自我内部和外部的关系网络可见。一个美学的战场展开了，摄入的物质的双倍颠倒了掠夺性关系，并用它们的设计和装饰来包围摄入它们的人的“眼睛灵魂”。这种设置使我们能够解决人格的分形质量以及亚马逊地区对称和不对称关系之间的永久不平衡。