Current Issue: Volume 21, Issue 1 (May 2025)
Issue 21 (1) brings together a variety of articles covering diverse regions and topics. Geraldo Andrello revisits the major topic of names in the Upper Rio Negro region, while Vanessa Lea and Leandro Mahalem take us back to the debate on Mẽbêngôkre residence and kinship within a regional context. In Maria Inês Ladeira’s text, the relationship between body and territoriality is brought to light in an ethnographically invigorating way through a discussion of birth among the Guarani. This inclusion of the Guarani context expands Tipití’s coverage of the South American lowlands beyond the Amazon. In the last three texts, Ospina and Gutiérrez, Pino, and Alfonzo discuss multilingualism, the body and shamanic politics, transformations, and reversals of the person. João Vianna’s text on the Baniwa, which looks at situations of conflict with “bosses,” revisits the topic of fictive kinship in anthropology. The publication of two keynotes in this issue is also of great importance. João Paulo Barreto Tukano’s contribution, presented at the SALSA conference in Leticia in 2023, is a milestone: the association’s first keynote by an Indigenous anthropologist. Aparecida Vilaça’s keynote, given at the University of St Andrews in 2024 in homage to Peter Gow, offers an exemplary reading of mythical narratives in an extension of Gow’s proposals. Kinship is revisited in many of the texts in this issue. Inspired by this, our designer Gustavo Fiorini created the beautiful cover image by adapting one of the diagrams in Lea and Mahalem’s article. We hope that readers also find much inspiration in his design.Articles
Naming people, making bodies: Reflections on Tukano onomastics
Geraldo Andrello
An X-ray of Mẽbêngôkre Houses in terms of matrimonial alliance
Vanessa R. Lea and Leandro Mahalem de Lima
Ser Nhande’i va’e, da concepção aos primeiros passos: uma abordagem etnográfica sobre a permanência, o movimento e a palavra
Maria Inês Ladeira
Gentes y maneras de hablar en el río Apaporis (Colombia): el caso de YAUNA, TANIMUCA y LETUAMA
Ana María Ospina-Bozzi and Joan Sebastián Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Relatos corporales con ajustes epistémicos De cuando un cuerpo humano se transformaba en bufeo en el río Napo
Nehemías Pino
Enactive Narrativities: Rubber-Times Historicity and Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia
Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo
Baniwa Speculative Kinship
João Vianna
Keynotes

Editors
- Editor-in-chief
- Susana Matos Viegas
- Associate Editors
- Cecilia McCallum, Joana Cabral de Oliveira, Guillermo Wilde
- Editorial Assistant
- João Roberto Bort Jr.
- Formatting and design
- Gustavo Fiorini
- Copy editor for Portuguese
- Janaína Tatim
- Copy editor for Spanish
- Natalia Matta-Jara
- Copy editor for English
- Veronika Groke, Christian Frenoupolo