THE LIFE OF PLACES AMONG THE KÏSÊDJÊ: TOPONYMY AS A TERMINOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIP

Authors

  • Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.75131

Keywords:

toponymy, place, Jê peoples, onomastics, history.

Abstract

The present study focuses on the toponymy of the Kïsêdjê (Brazilian indigenous Jê speaking people, also known as the Suyá) based on two assumptions: places are the result of processes, whether of creation or of representation; naming is one of the ways by which places made. I am at showing that the places referred to by the toponyms are the product of (intersubjective, interpersonal) relationships, happening between humans and non-humans, as well as among humans themselves; as well as that the naming of places is an action or activity which takes part in those relationships. The naming of places, like the telling of stories which connect with places and their names, is a way of building relationships between (human and non-human) persons, concerning other (human and non-human) persons. That living web of relationships is what places are made of, as objects of the subject’s attention. The title of the study points at my intention of exploring a belief that terminologys of relationship and onomastics have the same function (among others), which is to constitute persons as objects of one another’s attention through mutual relations.

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Author Biography

Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza, Universidade de Brasília

PPGAS/Departamento de Antropologia Laboratório de Antropologias da T/terra Universidade de Brasília

Published

2018-06-30

How to Cite

COELHO DE SOUZA, Marcela Stockler. THE LIFE OF PLACES AMONG THE KÏSÊDJÊ: TOPONYMY AS A TERMINOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIP. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 12, n. 1, p. 9, 2018. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.75131. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/75131. Acesso em: 30 oct. 2026.

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