Elements for a political theory of kaiowa and guarani

Author(s)

Spensy Kmitta Pimentel

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-11-30

Examining board members

Beatriz Perrone Moises; Candida Graciela Chamorro Arguello; Dominique Tilkin Gallois; Uirá Felippe Garcia; Leví Marques Pereira

• Advisor: Beatriz Perrone Moises

Abstract

The work aims to compose an ethnographic theory of kaiowa politics, which means that, based on the fieldwork, it formulates a model for understanding the collective movements of this guarani speaking group and its statements about this subject which, in the translation proposed here, correspond in part to what we Westerners understand as politics (also establishing a connection with the so called \"cosmopolitics\"). The political forms under review are grouped around three characters of greater yield for discusssion: tendotá, johexakáry and aty. Sometimes, the statements also concern the Guarani (ñandeva speakers), as part of the research involves them, but not all of it. To promote a better understanding, we show how these forms can be brought into dialogue with accounts of diferent amerindian political experiences, among groups like the Tupinambá of sixteenth century, the Iroquois and the Maya of Chiapas, Mexico. The thesis also discusses how the notion of social networks can help to rethink the canonical version of the history of the region now inhabited by the Guarani and Kaiowá, the south of Mato Grosso do Sul. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/11200-5 - How a Kaiowa is Magnified - Amerindian Leadership and the Reflection of Political Anthropology
• Grantee: Spensy Kmitta Pimentel
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate