“THE RELATIVES WANT MY PRESENCE” -- ABOUT THE PERSISTENCE OF THE KAINGANG COSMOLOGIES AND THE MISTAKES OF A COLONIAL STATE

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  • Clementine Marechal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.53049

Keywords:

kaingang, shamanism, cosmopolitics, struggle for land.

Abstract

In this paper, we approach the "shamanism" topic through a trip with Iracena Ga Rã, a Kaingang woman traveling from Vila Jari, in the city of Viamão (Rio Grande do Sul State) to the Kandóia Village, northeastern Rio Grande do Sul State. She’s going to give her support to relatives, for five indigenous leaders have been imprisoned after the death of two gunmen who were maintaining a Kaingang child hostage, in may 2014. On this trip, the relationship between humans and extrahumans is in evidence, as means to potentize and strengthen the group, specially in unfavorable contexts. Thus, a greater understanding of the « Kaingang shamanism » is pursued, the shamanism as an engine of resistance and struggle for land, as well as a part of a particular cosmopolitics system.

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Published

2015-06-23

How to Cite

MARECHAL, Clementine. “THE RELATIVES WANT MY PRESENCE” -- ABOUT THE PERSISTENCE OF THE KAINGANG COSMOLOGIES AND THE MISTAKES OF A COLONIAL STATE. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 9, n. 1, p. 151, 2015. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.53049. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/53049. Acesso em: 17 oct. 2026.

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