O processo de ensino-aprendizagem Apinayé através da confecção de seus instrumentos musicais

Abstract

In this research I seek to establish a dialogue between

ethnomusicology (more specifically indigenous organology), the

anthropology of art and the culture of the Apinayé peoples, in order to

understand how the musical objects of these peoples are learned and taught, and thus to understand its musical system. The methodological support is a practice of ethnographic and bibliographical nature, establishing the possibility of understanding the processes of transmission of Apinayé traditional knowledge and practices as a web that weaves their social, supernatural, mythological and cultural traditions. I present the Apinayé musical instruments as markedly cultural objects, feed on their elders' ancestral knowledge and practices to continue alive. But I also understand the Apinayé musical objects as representatives of a way of being and living in society that is unique to this group. Thus, I interpret the Apinayé musical instruments through its cultural practices, social use, supernatural importance and the worries linked to their perpetuation. The manufacture of these musical objects involves a unique cultural ancestry and allows this specific group to express themselves in a particular way of being in the world through their own musical system.