IMUNIZAÇÃO PELA LUTA

OS GUARDIÕES APINAJE E A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19

Authors

  • Júlio Kamêr Ribeiro Apinajé SECRETARIA DE EDUCAÇÃO E CULTURA DE TOCANTINS
  • Sheila Màxỳ P. Castro Apinajé UFG
  • Odilon Rodrigues Morais Neto Universidade Federal do Tocantins
  • Amanda Horta UFSCar
  • André Demarchi Demarchi UFT
  • Welitânia Oliveira UNB
  • Diana Dias Apinajé ESCOLA ESTADUAL INDÍGENA KATÁM KÁAK
  • Wahmẽ Apinajé TERRA INDÍGENA APINAYE
  • Nayane Januário Costa CENTRO DE TRABALHO INDIGENISTA

Abstract

This study is an ethnography of Panhῖ responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Written by many hands, it was based on research conducted for the most part in Apinaje lands by Panhῖ researchers, men and women, who actively worked in the struggle against Covid-19. This case study is focused on the group Apinaje Guardians [Guardiões Apinaje], the main protagonists in the establishment and maintenance of the autonomous sanitary barriers created in the Apinaje Indigenous Land (TI Apinaje) during the pandemic. This research is unprecedented for the Panhῖ. We place special emphasis on describing how the pandemic activated memories of genocide and war in connection with the contemporary experience of external pressures on their territory, such as deforestation and alcoholism. The conjunction of emergencies is central to show how the response of the Panhĩ to the current health crisis and the stress caused by it is a form of immunization through the making of Panhĩ bodies in a permanent state of struggle.

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Author Biography

Odilon Rodrigues Morais Neto, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Mestre em Antropologia (2007) Unb; doutorando em Antropologia Unb (2016- ); Professor da Universidade Federal do Tocantins. Atua nas seguintes áreas: Etnologia Indígena da Amazônia, História indígena e do indigenismo; Educação escolar indígenas; indentidade e cultura; educação interétnica

Published

2025-08-30

How to Cite

KAMÊR RIBEIRO APINAJÉ, Júlio; MÀXỲ P. CASTRO APINAJÉ, Sheila; MORAIS NETO, Odilon Rodrigues; HORTA, Amanda; DEMARCHI, André Demarchi; OLIVEIRA, Welitânia; DIAS APINAJÉ, Diana; APINAJÉ, Wahmẽ; JANUÁRIO COSTA, Nayane. IMUNIZAÇÃO PELA LUTA: OS GUARDIÕES APINAJE E A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 19, n. 2, p. 187–212, 2025. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/137907. Acesso em: 15 sep. 2026.

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INDIGENOUS AUTHORS