This paper explores the genre of incantation as it is practiced by the Hup (Makú) people of the northwest Amazon, and considers the challenges it brings to our conceptions of verbal art and its documentation. Hup incantation is fundamentally multifaceted, bringing to bear multiple performative events, voices, and audiences across ritual and social contexts. It is also both highly artistic and maximally enactive, such that its aesthetic and utilitarian features not only coexist, but also co‐engender, each promoting the elaboration of the other. As we argue here, the incantation invites us to reexamine our understanding of poetics, and epitomizes the paradox of commensurability that challenges any documentation of language and culture.

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积极的美学：Hup咒语的诗学

本文探讨了西北亚马逊地区的Hup（Makú）人所实行的咒语类型，并考虑了它对我们的言语艺术及其文献观念带来的挑战。Hup咒语从根本上讲是多方面的，在仪式和社会环境中带来多种表演事件，声音和听众。它既具有高度的艺术性又具有最大的积极性，因此它的美学和功利性特征不仅共存，而且共存，相互促进彼此的精心设计。正如我们在这里所争论的那样，该咒语邀请我们重新审视对诗学的理解，并概括了可比性悖论，它挑战了任何语言和文化文献。