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WORLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNION

CONGRESS 2024​

Paper

The narrative of the poetry of Amaini and the historical memory of the Yi Aborigines

presenters

    AnuoAbu

    Nationality: China

    Residence: China

    Poet

    Presence:Face to Face/ On Site

Keywords:

Amaini; Anthropological Poetics; outdoor writing; historical memory; memorization and criticism

Abstract:

Before the emergence of writing, poetry had a breadth and depth that other art genres could not match in terms of ethnic narrative and cultural memory. As an aborigine ethnic group, the Yi people has her own mature language, writing, astronomy, and calendar. Like the civilizations of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient India, and ancient China, the Yi civilization with its own system has made significant contributions to the long history of humanity. To some extent, it has influenced and enriched human civilization. Amini, a female poet, educator, and pharmacologist from the Mo tribe of the Yi ethnic group, gave a profound discussion on the relationship between poetry and the beauty of mountains and rivers, as well as the importance of recuperation. This article, from an anthropological perspective, elaborates on the anthropological poetic characteristics of indigenous peoples and folk songs in the writing of Yi people's agricultural civilization and field poetry.