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| Author(s): |
Valeria Mendonca de Macedo
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: | 2010-03-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Dominique Tilkin Gallois;
Geraldo Luciano Andrello;
Marcio Goldman;
Maria Inês Martins Ladeira;
Beatriz Perrone Moises
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| Advisor: | Dominique Tilkin Gallois |
| Abstract | |
This thesis departs from an ethnographical research with the Guarani Mbya and Nhandeva who live in the Indigenous Land Ribeirão Silveira, located at the coastal region of the state of São Paulo. The aim of the research is to study how my informants conceptualize relationships of alterity and the dislocations brought by the code of culture. Since the 1980s legal statutes, institutional provisions and media discourses proliferated in Brazil based on the promotion of cultural diversity. The study focuses on the political demands targeted to the State, public policies implementation, local production projects and cultural events. Among those initiatives are the production of children choirs CDs, public performances and the participation in the National Indian Festival that happens annually in Bertioga. In these initiatives, culture is a sign that connects and separates persons taking into account markers such as indians and whites, or Guarani (as this set of persons is called by the jurua) or jurua (as this set of persons is called by the Guarani). These markers, however, articulate different nexus of difference, summarized in the title of this thesis as culture and affection. Coming from an identitary and multiculturalist frame, culture operates predominantly with ethnic markers, while the other uses those markers from a xamanic perspective, associated with kinship (involving both humans and divine ancestors). In this sense, this thesis focuses on the networks of meaning mobilized and performed by the Guarani in several relational scales, ranging from definitions about the person to ethnic discourses. (AU) | |