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Dr Paolo Fortis' Outputs (22)

'Too many meanings': Reading Piro Designs (2022)
Journal Article
Fortis, P., & Margiotti, M. (2022). 'Too many meanings': Reading Piro Designs. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 19(1), 31-38

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Kuchler, S. (2021). Introduction. In P. Fortis, & S. Kuchler (Eds.), Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images (1-20). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158806

Biographical Relations in Amerindian and Melanesian Societies (2021)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Kuchler, S. (2021). Biographical Relations in Amerindian and Melanesian Societies. In Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images (129-147). Routledge

The aesthetics of 'time-reckoning': a Guna chromatic history (2019)
Journal Article
Fortis, P. (2019). The aesthetics of 'time-reckoning': a Guna chromatic history. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25(3), 441-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13077

This is a study of time and aesthetics through an ethnographic analysis of an indigenous visual system. Looking at historical changes in women's clothing and village patterns among Guna people (Panama), the article shows that images and artefacts are... Read More about The aesthetics of 'time-reckoning': a Guna chromatic history.

Iconography and Style (2018)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P. (2018). Iconography and Style. In H. Callan (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Wiley & Sons Ltd

Corpo e Persona tra i Guna (Kuna) di Panama (2017)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P. (2017). Corpo e Persona tra i Guna (Kuna) di Panama. In S. Botta, & M. Ferrara (Eds.), Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo (299-319). Edizioni Nuova Cultura

General MacArthur among the Guna: The Aesthetics of Power and Alterity in an Amerindian Society (2016)
Journal Article
Fortis, P. (2016). General MacArthur among the Guna: The Aesthetics of Power and Alterity in an Amerindian Society. Current Anthropology, 57(4), 430-451. https://doi.org/10.1086/687112

This article deals with issues surrounding the study of indigenous appropriations of symbols of military power. It focuses on the case of Guna people from the San Blas Archipelago of Panama who, in the 1940s, carved some wooden figures in the likenes... Read More about General MacArthur among the Guna: The Aesthetics of Power and Alterity in an Amerindian Society.

Kinship in Anthropology (2015)
Book Chapter
Overing, J., Fortis, P., & Margiotti, M. (2015). Kinship in Anthropology. In J. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (36-43). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12098-7

This article outlines the development of kinship studies in anthropology from their beginning to our days. It reviews classic debates on descent and marriage, the role of gender studies in rethinking kinship categories and the more recent contributio... Read More about Kinship in Anthropology.

Designs, Skills and Objects in Guna Life (2015)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Margiotti, M. (2015). Designs, Skills and Objects in Guna Life. In M. Flitsch (Ed.), Crafting beauty and layering the world in Panama (19-29). Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich

As an everyday garment and a commodified indigenous textile, mola (pl. molagana) has long captivated the imagination of tourists, art collectors and researchers. Amongst their distinctive features, molagana display an almost infinite repertoire of de... Read More about Designs, Skills and Objects in Guna Life.

Artefacts and Bodies among Kuna People from Panamá (2014)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P. (2014). Artefacts and Bodies among Kuna People from Panamá. In E. Hallam, & T. Ingold (Eds.), Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts (89-106). Ashgate Publishing

O Nascimento do Desenho: uma Teoria Kuna do Corpo e da Pessoa (2013)
Journal Article
Fortis, P. (2013). O Nascimento do Desenho: uma Teoria Kuna do Corpo e da Pessoa. Revista Enfoques (Rio de Janeiro), 12(1), 66-93

O artigo explora o conceito de ‘desenho’ (narmakkalet) encontrado entre os Kuna do Panamá. Demonstra que o conceito nativo de desenho, e sua relação com o corpo humano, é central para a noção de pessoa mantida pelos Kuna. O principal argumento é que... Read More about O Nascimento do Desenho: uma Teoria Kuna do Corpo e da Pessoa.

Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving (2012)
Journal Article
Fortis, P. (2012). Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. Journal de la Société des américanistes (En ligne), 98(1), 7-37. https://doi.org/10.4000/jsa.12119

Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving. The long debated problem of representation in Amerindian art discussed by Boas, Kroeber and Lévi-Strauss is reconsidered in this article through an ethnographic a... Read More about Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving.

Nuchu and kwaríp: Images of Past in Central and South America (2011)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P. (2011). Nuchu and kwaríp: Images of Past in Central and South America. In P. Fortis, & I. Praet (Eds.), The Archaeological Encounter. Anthropological Perspectives (204-235). University of St. Andrews (Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies)