Relações étnicas no alto Rio Negro: Yanonami Peripo Iyë os filhos da lua

Abstract

This work had as main focus analyze the reconfiguration of ethnic relations in the Upper Rio Negro region, specifically in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, that have changed during the colonizing process due to inclusion of new actors in the regional setting. Military, traders, civil servants, NGOs, national and international researchers, all leaving their mark on the region. Make an analysis based only on anthropological postulates would be enought, however, due to the complexity of the region and the interdisciplinary character of the Graduate Program in Society and Culture in the Amazon we make use of the sociological writings of Max Weber and the Franz Boas, Lévi-Strauss, Mircea Eliade, Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, Neide Fiori, Robin Wright, Joseph Campbell. Progress in research starting in the chronological narrative of occupation of the Amazon region in order that the reader may be located towards time-space. Secondly we make use of the researcher's experience reports and mythical narratives of the peoples of the upper Rio Negro and especially the Yanomami people in order to show the relevance of such manifestation for the maintenance of ethnic identity of the peoples of the region and demonstrate that even with all the influences and changes in intertribal relations there is a strong presence of cultural element in the life of these people specifically. Methodologically we chose to use the path of ethnography by us seem the most appropriate to help us walk the paths along the traditional peoples of the upper Rio Negro. During the work it became clear that the question of identity today, more than ever, it is important to point to the ethnic groups and ethnic relations are reconfigured over time in order to adapt to the new social needs. Within this reality the mythological world of these people is what helps them to maintain their connection with their ancestors. The search for ways to value the traditions and be part of the ongoing process in the national society also sets up a reality.