The paper is based on research with regard to subgroups amidst the Katukina people of the Biá river, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Memories with respect to these groups are associated with diverse beings such as animals and human groups (Cocama, Kambeba and Miranha), which raises the question whether a logical continuity could be posited between such animals and these groups in the naming of the Katukina subgroups. The paper analyzes the stories told in regard to these groups and the ideas with which they are associated, as well as the river-based social organization of the present-day Katukina. It thereby identifies a link between the subgroup model and the fluvial model, which indicates in turn the diffuse presence of the qualitative logics amidst Katukina social relations. The names permit the fluidification of the system and alert us to the asymmetry thereof, thence revealing a specifically Katukina take on a regional perspective.
De modo exploratório e não exaustivo, o texto trata de parte relevante da bibliografia antropológica produzida sobre os Xokleng – grupo de língua Jê situado no alto vale do Itajaí, em Santa Catarina. Concentra-se nos trabalhos de maior fôlego e enfatiza continuidades e rupturas analíticas nestas obras, que abrangem um período que vai da década de 1930 até a primeira década deste século. Busca olhar criticamente para os pressupostos implícitos nos modelos utilizados por estas pesquisas e apontar para outras abordagens possíveis.
HILL, Jonathan D. & CHAUMEIL, Jean-Pierre (Orgs). Burst of Breath: New Research on Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2011, 440 pp.
This text reflects on some of the meanings denoted by forest music in the Xokleng universe, focusing in particular on the dimensions of ‘culture,’ politics and mythic time. With this aim in mind, the text briefly describes some of the native conceptions of both this music and the rituals during which it is performed. The progressive transformation enabled by the mythic episode of leaving the forest and the contemporary appropriations of its indexes (appropriations which the group’s ethics and aesthetics hold to be adequate) form the empirical basis for the way in which this music is perceived by the indigenous people concerned.
Este artigo reflete sobre a distinção xokleng entre o tempo do mato (“pré-pacifi cação”) e o tempo de fora do mato (contemporâneo), procurando explicitar as consequências socio cosmológicas de tal diferenciação no mundo vivido desses ameríndios através da discussão das relações entre mito e história. Argumenta que o evento da saída do mato possui pertinência mítica, atuando na organização sociotemporal do grupo, na sua constituição enquanto coletividade e como eixo reflexivo a partir do qual as práticas cotidianas são concebidas.
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