O ESTADO ULTRA MÍNIMO, RESILIENTE, SOLIDARISTA E GERONTOCRÁTICO DOS TUPINAMBÁS NO PASSADO REMOTO
ENTRE ANARQUIA E O LEVIATÃ
Abstract
ABSTRACT: based on an analysis of selected ethnohistorical material employing a methodology that investigates the hypothesis of a middle-ground power structure situated between State maximalism and State absenteeism this article posits the existence of an ultra-minimal, resilient, solidarist, and gerontocratic State within the Tupinambá society of the distant past. It begins by critiquing the Tribalist intellectual tradition used by Florestan Fernandes and Pierre Clastres to describe the Tupinambá political system; after, technically evaluates the existence of a native State among the Tupinambá by applying variables from the General Theory of the State; finally, it assesses the intensity of Tupinambá public authority, categorizing it according to zero, minimal, and maximal degrees of societal intervention. The analyzed material indicates that the Tupinambá of the distant past, in southeastern Brazil, were neither anarchists nor Leviathanics.KEYWORDS: tupinambá solidarist State; indigenous social anarchy; indigenous Leviathan; tupinambá ultra minimal State.
