Claude Lévi-Strauss : walk among the photographs
In 1935, Claude Lévi-Strauss accepted the postion of Professor of Sociology at São Paulo in Brazil. During that year and the one that followed, he carried out several ethnographic expeditions during which he focussed on photographing the places that he saw and the people that he met. Here are some of those taken amongst the Amazonian Bororo and Caduveo. In each case, the editions are made on barium paper.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss Expedition - At his camp
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A woman painting ceramics with thinned chalk
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A woman painting the face of a dancer
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A woman with a painted face
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A woman with a painted face
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A woman with a painted face
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A woman with a painted face
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Two women in party dress
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A young man in a dancing costume
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A chief's headdress for a funeral dance
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A chief's large crown
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A native in ceremonial costume
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A man in a costume for a celebration
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Position of the right hand for shooting with a bow
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The interior of a collective dwelling
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Kejara village (Bororo)
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"The Men's House"
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Bringing out the mariddo
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The Ewaguddu clan dance
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The Ewaguddu clan dance
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Dancers from the Paiwa clan
Bringing out the mariddo
Brazil, Bororo population, 22.5 X 29.3 cm, PP0002068
This funeral ceremony shows the dancers leaving from the men's house. A participant carries an enormous mass of foliage on his head that is likened to a high circular headdress. The mariddo marks the passage of the deceased to ancestor status, which guarantees him eternal life. The Bororo believe that the world must be reconstructed with the death of a person, thus the importance given to a funeral.
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