The shaman and the flash-drive: singing and forgetting in Araweté verbal art.

Dr Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, University College London

Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 11.00 am

This will take place at 11 am in the Department of Anthropology, UCL, Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW.  Guilherme is an affiliated scholar of the RAI's Anthropology and Language Committee.  The paper concerns Araweté shamanism and the reported speech practices that mediate the relationship between the living and deceased kin.