Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Objects made of beads are present in many Guyanese ethnographic descriptions.From the first reports of European travelers to the latest intangible heritage enhancement projects, the people of this region are frankly interested in glass beads and make multiple uses of them .Crossing great distances in the form of both bead strings and wefts with varying iconographic patterns, beads are also significant objects in the mythologies of the region.This research exposes multiple ways of using beads as well as the transformations that both the beads and the objects made with them take place, based on a review of available literature and fieldwork at TI Parque do Tumucumaque (northern Pará).
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3049017272