IMUNIZAÇÃO PELA LUTA
OS GUARDIÕES APINAJE E A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19
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.
