ABSTRACT This is a study about sacred flutes in lowland South America, taking the Xinguano as main subject matter. Also, it studies what I call antropologization of the world, or the inversion of the original hegemony of the mama’e spirits in relation to human beings. The article is an exploration departing from Clastres’ idea of «against». The referred Clastres’ idea has taken me to a vision of the Xinguano as disciplinary societies, according to Foucault, but against modernity according to Latour’s formulation of modernity.
KEYWORDS:
Xinguano; sacred flutes; visual interdiction; anthropologization of the world; Pierre Clastres