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| Author(s): |
Uirá Felippe Garcia
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: | 2011-03-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcio Ferreira da Silva;
Tânia Stolze Lima;
Sylvia Maria Caiuby Novaes;
Edmundo Antonio Peggion;
Renato Sztutman
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| Advisor: | Marcio Ferreira da Silva |
| Abstract | |
This thesis is an ethnographic account of the Awa-Guajá people, a Tupi-Guarani speaking group that lives in eastern Amazonia, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. The work examines: (1) the ways they conceive of territory, and their cosmographic perceptions; (2) human personhood and ways of being; (3) conjugality and kinship processes; (4) hunting as a central activity to life; and (5) finally, the relationship between humans and the karawara (non-human entities), which is also central to life and Awá-Guajá\'s world. The thesis focuses on the relationships established by these people, the activities of hunting, and other life processes, such as kinship, through the idea of \'riko\'; and cosmology, through the idea of karawara. (AU) | |