Why MAHKU – Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin – sing?

Authors

  • Amilton Pelegrino de Mattos Universidade Federal do Acre. Campus Floresta
  • Ibã Huni Kuin University of Acre. Campus Floresta. Forest Spirit Project

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.128974

Keywords:

Huni Kuin, Visual Anthropology, Ethnographic film, art, Anthropology of music

Abstract

The article presented is a joint work of the authors cited above. The drawings presented are products of MAHKU – Huni Kuin Artists Movement inspired from the huni meka songs. The nixi pae (ayahuasca) songs are the motive for the commentary of Ibã Huni Kuin and his way of “translation” of the language of songs, which he calls "put in the sense" (pôr ou colocar no sentido). In the first part we make a brief presentation of the Ibã and collective Huni Kuin artists research and the trajectory of MAHKU, portrayed in the audiovisual essay The nixi pae’s dream (Dir. Amilton Mattos, 2015).

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Author Biographies

  • Amilton Pelegrino de Mattos, Universidade Federal do Acre. Campus Floresta

    Since 2008, he has been a Professor of the Bachelor of Education Program for Indigenous People at the Federal University of Acre - Floresta, in Cruzeiro do Sul, where he coordinates LABI – the Laboratory of Image and Sound. He made the films The spirit of the forest (2012) and The dream of nixi pae (2015) ). For more than 8 years he has been researching with Ibã Huni Kuin, with whom he created the collective Mahku (2011) and the Independent Mahku Center (2015).

  • Ibã Huni Kuin, University of Acre. Campus Floresta. Forest Spirit Project

    Son of Tuin Huni Kuin (Romão Sales), he belongs to the Huni Kuin people of the Jordan. As a teacher, he has worked for about thirty years at the Chico Curumin School, Alto Rio Jordão Indigenous Land. As a researcher, he has worked at the Forest Spirit Project at the Federal University of Acre - Campus Floresta in Cruzeiro do Sul since 2009. He coordinates the Mahku Collective - Huni Kuin Artists Movement and the Independent Mahku Center (Jordan, Acre).

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Published

2017-05-29

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Mattos, Amilton Pelegrino de, and Ibã Huni Kuin. 2017. “Why MAHKU – Movimento Dos Artistas Huni Kuin – Sing?”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.128974.