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Comparative Anthropology of Arts and Memory: Ethnography of Kunas Therapeutic Chants
Antropología comparada de las artes de la memoria: etnografía de los cantos terapéuticos Kunas
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Comparative Anthropology of Arts and Memory: Ethnography of Kunas Therapeutic Chants
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 Assumption of the Oral Tradition    00:21:33
 The Function of Therapeutic Chant in Shamanesque Context  Carlo Severi explains that the three main elements of chanting (form, context, and function) are based upon a broader concept: “social memory.” He specifies that the form of chanting is defined as a mental representation technique, that the context is the society, and that the general function of the chant is defining the Kunas community. He then returns to the function of the Shamanesque chant and affirms that it plays the role of preserving a community’s knowledge so as to protect its communal identity from outsiders and external uses. In a global vision, he explains that the ethnologist’s work on text plays a role in propogating history.  00:10:01
 Mythological Explanation of Illnesses  Carlo Severi returns to the notion of illness in order to explain the concept of verbal therapy practised by the Kunas through chanting. Using the example of the “Jaguar from the sky” from Kunas mythology, he places illness in a rational schema and defines it as the consequence of man’s illicit or forbidden contact with an animal. Carlo Severi affirms that illness is linked to the notions of human predation and cannibalism in cases of madness. Coming back to the example of the “Jaguar from the sky,” Carlo Severi demonstrates that illness in the Kuna tribe reveals a behaviour of identification with an animal spirit which differs from the state of being a victim. Carlo Severi opens the path a broad reflection on memory by focusing on the role of therapeutic intervention in terms of memorizing and preserving heritage.  00:18:43
 Some Exemples of Therapeutic Chant : "the Voice of Mu" and "the Secret of the Snake"    00:12:32
 Death in the Therapeutic Process    00:13:21
 Communicating through Sound  Carlo Severi explains that the chant is adapted to a form of animal communication and that it is a therapeutic act. He therefore affirms that ethnographic study of chanting allows one to better understand the sense of words and their therapeutic affects on an illness. He highlights the therapeutic role of sound and verbal tradition and believes that music is of animal origin and that it imitates verbal language. In a more general context, he sees the importance of anthropology of the communicative mediums on communication.  00:22:05



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