Antropologia, histórias e temporalidades entre os Avá-Guarani de Oco y (PR)

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2009

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This research had as objective to understand the historicity of Ava-Guarani (Nhandeva) from Indigenous Land of Oco.y (PR), their manners of social, political and religious organization. This indigenous group presents a trajectory of dislocations stimulated by visits to relatives, by a religious discipline that proclaim the search of Terra-sem-Mal (cosmological place in the same time that geographical place) but also as consequence of contact with the western society, as in the case of building of Hydroelectric Power Plant of Itaipu, that provoked the dislocation of the area where they lived, flooded with the building of this Hydroelectric Power Plant. Thus, it had as objective reconstitute the sight that these indigenous has of their history (as those regarding for the dislocations as also those of their manner of social life in the past) done since the native memory accessed through of the genealogy.s survey, of the talk / interview with the Ava-Guarani of this indigenous area, specially with the oldest peoples (those that has a live memory of events) and with the indigenous leadership. The initial theoretical question faced the manners of political organization of this indigenous group, having as premise the thesis of Pierre and Helene Clastres (1974 and 1975) of a structural tension between the political and religious spheres . had as typical of Tupi-Guarani society . and the question of if it reveal itself in Oco.y and, if yes, the observation of how this articulate itself with the news contexts lived by this indigenous people. In the meantime, the Ava Guarani.s perspective of future observed during the fieldwork did with that this work asked the ethnological literature about the Guarani that state they has a cyclical temporality and that they are pessimists in relation to future, in function if their cataclysmic perspective (Nimuendaju, 1914 e Metraux, 1967). The Ava-Guarani of Oco.y, because they differentiate themselves of this ethnological model when present projects for the future. This prove that they don.t wait resigned the next cataclysm. They state that the Earth will burn, but not by a divine designation and yes due to the devastation provoked by the whites that leave the Earth without protection. The conclusion of this thesis to revolve around the statement of co-existence of different temporalities, specially represented by of specifications and inter-relation of political and religious spheres.

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antropologia indios guarani - aspectos politicos - aspectos religiosos indios guarani - historia - parana

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