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The Moça Nova Festival: female initiation ritual of the Ticuna indigenous people
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| Author(s): |
Edson Tosta Matarezio Filho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-05-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcio Ferreira da Silva;
Marta Rosa Amoroso;
Cesar Claudio Gordon Junior;
Sylvia Maria Caiuby Novaes;
Marnio Teixeira Pinto
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| Advisor: | Marcio Ferreira da Silva |
| Abstract | |
This thesis mainly focuses on the description and analysis of the Moça Nova Festival, the initiation ritual through which Ticuna young women go through. The Ticuna people speak an isolated language and inhabit, for the most part, the Upper Solimões River (Amazonas, Brazil), spread across Brazil, Peru and Colombia. At the time of the menarche, girls are secluded and the ritual is organized. In order to understand this festival, which marks the moment when girls leave seclusion, I present how it relates to other dimensions of Ticuna life: social organization and kinship, mythology, cosmology, body and shamanism. Both the ethnography and the analysis concentrate primarily on the songs, musical instruments and mythic narratives related to the festival and its ritual process. (AU) | |