Among Others: an Review of Ritual Transformation Between Kagwahiva

• Grant number: 12/23819-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: April 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Edmundo Antonio Peggion
• Grantee: Gabriel Garcêz Bertolin
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this research is an ethnography about Tenharim, Tupi-Kagwahiva group living in south Amazonas state, focusing on the relationship of this group with otherness. For the realization of this proposal will consider the main party Tenharim, the Mboatawa, taking it as a privileged point for understanding this performative constitution process of identity and difference. The Mboatawa occurs anually during the dry season, following the agricultural calendar of Tenharim. Besides of fildwork will be a study of historical documentation ethnographies amazon related to the theme of ritual.