This article analyses Amazonian objects of the Santarém and Konduri styles (1100–1600 AD), many of them with images of beings in transformation, adopting a framework that goes beyond an emphasis on the visual to recuperate pragmatic aspects of the rituals in which the objects were involved, apprehended through the formal properties and affordances of the artifacts themselves. Different rules are identified in the construction of these artifacts, some displaying anthropomorphic beings that transmute into zoomorphic beings, others that are revealed through the manipulation of artifacts or through a change in perspective enabled by a change in viewing angle. Composite bodies also constitute an important focus of attention. While the Santarém objects are distinguished by the standardization and reproduction of their design, suggesting a social intensification of a set of practices, the chimerical Konduri figurations point to a relationship closer to the paradoxical dynamic of ritual art, which works to reveal and conceal simultaneously.

本文分析了 Santarém 和 Konduri 风格（公元 1100-1600 年）的亚马逊物品，其中许多物品带有正在转变中的生物的图像，采用一个超越视觉的框架来恢复仪式的实用方面，其中物品参与其中，通过人工制品本身的形式属性和可供性来理解。在这些人工制品的构建中确定了不同的规则，一些展示了可转变为动物形态的拟人化生物，另一些则通过人工制品的操纵或通过视角变化而导致的透视变化而显露出来。复合体也是一个重要的关注焦点。虽然 Santarém 的物品以其设计的标准化和复制而著称，