In the Guyanese Amazon, Waiwai memory is made through the substances and associated sentiments that accrue in the body. Remembering and forgetting are morally weighted actions that transform the dispositions of others, enabling desired feelings of contentment or anger and ill will. Waiwai perspectives on the stakes of being or not being in the thoughts of others matter for their relations with the state: Waiwai people say that, in the past, their households were split between Guyana and Brazil because the Guyanese government forgot about them, while in the present, Waiwai people work to make Guyanese officials remember them, and this constitutes a form of political practice. Whereas anthropological accounts of the politics of memory emphasize how the past is operationalized in the present, Waiwai discussions of being forgotten and being remembered demonstrate the significance of affective, rather than representational, forms of memory for the political practices of indigenous-state relations. [memory, morality, politics, affect, Waiwai, Guyana, Amazonia]

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被遗忘，被铭记

在圭亚那亚马逊地区，外外记忆是通过身体中积累的物质和相关情绪形成的。记住和忘记是有道德的行为，可以改变他人的性格，使人产生满足或愤怒和恶意的理想感觉。Waiwai 对是否处于他人的想法中的利害关系的观点对于他们与国家的关系很重要：Waiwai 人说，过去，他们的家庭分散在圭亚那和巴西之间，因为圭亚那政府忘记了他们，而在现在，外外人努力让圭亚那官员记住他们，这构成了一种政治实践。鉴于人类学对记忆政治的解释强调过去是如何在现在运作的，Waiwai关于被遗忘和被记住的讨论表明了情感而非代表性记忆形式对于土著-国家关系的政治实践的重要性。[记忆,道德,政治,影响, Waiwai , Guyana , Amazonia ]