Abstract
Studies of statehood or counter-statehood in indigenous South America remain incipient. Although some attention has been given to the topic since the publication of Pierre Clastres’Society Against the Statein 1974, little has been done to fill one crucial gap: the connection between Andean societies and those of the lowlands. Taking as a background the ethnography of an Arawakan people, the Enawene Nawe, this article seeks to fill this lacuna synthetically by tracing out various theoretical-philosophical pathways. Combining a partial review of some key precepts from the philosophy of Gille Deleuze and Félix Guattari with an engagement with studies of indigenous music, the article touches on ecologically indispensable issues, including a call for the systematic collation of archaeological studies in ethnological syntheses, but also for a more general appreciation of the regime of ‘small intervals’ prevailing in the continent’s musicalities.
Keywords:
Political Philosophy; Indigenous Ethnology; Deleuze and Guattari; South American Archaeology; Indigenous Music; Arawak Peoples