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| Author(s): |
Aline de Oliveira Aranha
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-12-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Renato Sztutman;
Dominique Tilkin Gallois;
Maria Inês Martins Ladeira;
Valéria Mendonça de Macedo
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| Advisor: | Renato Sztutman |
| Abstract | |
The intention here is to think about how transformations in mbya manners and strategies of leadership and cosmopolitical action are, creatively, mobilized and produced in the increasingly intense confrontation with the politics and the manner of being, thinking and, the so called, behaving jurua (non-indigenous), elucidating the (in)tense work of translation implied in these and other bonds of relations that make up the Guarani world. There is a whole management and mobilization of these relations of alliance and kinship, in which different domains and perspectives demand different rhetoric and different actions, and ethnic identities become political weapons, especially after the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, involving a whole mbya cosmopolitical diplomacy that starts from an ethics of moderation, shamanic, with a view to the production of healthy and joyful people and groups in this perishable land (tekoaxy), and is even more accentuated in this context of territorial constraint and overpopulation, which imposes various limits on the exercise of its territoriality. These transformations are embedded in contexts such as the struggle for land demarcation and the safeguarding of indigenous constitutional rights, as in cultural strengthening projects under the rubric of culture (with commas), in which the mastery of bureaucracy implies a better domain of the battlefield and, with that, the affirmation and demarcation of the difference and resistance Mbya against the State. This rhetoric, thus, directly affects the production of Guarani statements and perspectives for the future of its leaders and its community. We are also faced with a growing context of valorization and public protagonism of young mbya women (kunhãgue), as well as the opening and conquest of spaces of speech and political activity within the community, previously mostly occupied by male figures or older and more experienced people. From this, we seek to reflect on the complementarity and mutual strengthening of both subjects, kunhãgue and avakue (mbya men), and how their different capacities-powers (-poaka) relate to the mbya processes of construction and composition of people, leadership, collectives, discourses and practices. The idea then is to widen our conceptions of politics and to think the movements performed by the various subjects as corresponding more to differententiating cosmopolitical dispositions, therefore, relational, than to functions or proper (o)positions or even fixed ones, more a singular capacities-powers of act, make acting, affect and be affected, that count with different modalities and styles of leadership and areas of influence and prestige. Such political figures can still be thought as translators of worlds or cosmopolitical diplomats, transiting through different codes and agencing different worlds. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/00569-9 - Cosmopolitics dynamics among the Guarani-Mbya |
| Grantee: | Aline de Oliveira Aranha |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |