Evelyn Schuler Zea
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Evelyn Schuler Zea started her formation as anthropologist, translator and video editor in São Paulo, where she grew up bilingual (Brazilian Portuguese and Swiss German). Since 1996 she is attached to the "Núcleo de História Indígena e do Indigenismo" (NHII-USP) and realizes ongoing fieldwork in northern Amazonia among Amerindians known as Waiwai. She graduated in Ethnology, Philosophy and German Literature at University of Basel in 1999 and received her PhD from the Institute for Social Anthropology of the University of Bern in 2006, where she also worked as scientific assistant teaching on Amerindian anthropologies during two semesters. In January 2007 she entered the Postdoctoral Program in Social Anthropology of University of São Paulo, which includes lessons as visiting professor in a postgraduate course on Amerindian translations and relations. Evelyn Schuler Zea received a Differenzstipendium from University of Basel, a PIBIC-CNPq-Scholarship from University of São Paulo, a pre-doctoral funding from the Janggen-Pöhn-Stiftung and doctoral and postdoctoral grants from SNF and MHV and from FAPESP, respectively. She is author of Zwischen Sein und Nicht-Sein: Fragmente eines kosmologischen Tupi-Guarani-Diskurses in der neueren brasilianischen Ethnologie (Curupira, 2000) and co-editor of the review Sexta Feira: Antropologias, Artes e Humanidades, writing articles on the interface between metaphor and translation, anthropology and cinema. Participating in international interdisciplinary research groups („Projeto Temático Redes Ameríndias", "Dynamiques des circulations migratoires et mobilités transfrontalières entre Guyane, Surinam, Brésil, Guyana et Haïti"), her current research concerns conceptions of "translation" and "relation" in Amerindian anthropologies, grounded in Waiwai conceptual images and social dynamics.
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Evelyn Schuler Zea started her formation as anthropologist, translator and video editor in São Paulo, where she grew up bilingual (Brazilian Portuguese and Swiss German). Since 1996 she is attached to the "Núcleo de História Indígena e do Indigenismo" (NHII-USP) and realizes ongoing fieldwork in northern Amazonia among Amerindians known as Waiwai. She graduated in Ethnology, Philosophy and German Literature at University of Basel in 1999 and received her PhD from the Institute for Social Anthropology of the University of Bern in 2006, where she also worked as scientific assistant teaching on Amerindian anthropologies during two semesters. In January 2007 she entered the Postdoctoral Program in Social Anthropology of University of São Paulo, which includes lessons as visiting professor in a postgraduate course on Amerindian translations and relations. Evelyn Schuler Zea received a Differenzstipendium from University of Basel, a PIBIC-CNPq-Scholarship from University of São Paulo, a pre-doctoral funding from the Janggen-Pöhn-Stiftung and doctoral and postdoctoral grants from SNF and MHV and from FAPESP, respectively. She is author of Zwischen Sein und Nicht-Sein: Fragmente eines kosmologischen Tupi-Guarani-Diskurses in der neueren brasilianischen Ethnologie (Curupira, 2000) and co-editor of the review Sexta Feira: Antropologias, Artes e Humanidades, writing articles on the interface between metaphor and translation, anthropology and cinema. Participating in international interdisciplinary research groups („Projeto Temático Redes Ameríndias", "Dynamiques des circulations migratoires et mobilités transfrontalières entre Guyane, Surinam, Brésil, Guyana et Haïti"), her current research concerns conceptions of "translation" and "relation" in Amerindian anthropologies, grounded in Waiwai conceptual images and social dynamics.
September 21, 2009
Which kind of relation is created through interweaving processes? What can interweaving tell us about the potentiality of a relation? These are crucial questions for my approach to the concept of interweaving of performance cultures. As image interweaving points to the irreducible diversity of connections, which bring into relatedness not essentialist identities, but further hybrid forms. By that, it is noticeable that interweaving exceeds its threads allowing them to reach a particular and actual configuration beyond themselves. It is also a matter of the circulation of threads, in such a manner that they constantly flow and that they relate precisely through its movement.