Presas do timbó: cosmopolítica e transformações Suruwaha

Abstract

This research analyses the transformations lived by Suruwaha during the last decades, forming a collective from previous sub-groups , the dawa, which produced a new practice of death by poisoning, connected to the cosmological principles of their shamanism. The analysis about the process of formation of Suruwaha was set in a broader comparison framework with other collectives in the Purus-Juruá interfluve. It is possible to conceive this Arawa social tangle as a dégradée of basic social units, dynamically projected from the Kulina s madiha, the Deni and western Jamamadi s deni, advances through the eastern Jamamadi, Banawa and Jarawara s madi, and goes forward to the Paumari s local groups and Suruwaha s dawa. Oriented by a peculiar socio-cosmology of their territory, these collectives precede constitutively the ethnicities, and form the socio-cultural continuum of an indigenous social network. The constitution of Suruwaha s network aims also to a cosmic connectivity, interacting with non-humans, foreigners, animals, plaints, spirits , shamans and dead. Expanding the connections of this network, the Suruwaha cosmopolitics create an innovative process, so the classic paradigm of producing dead by shamans witchcraft generates a paradigm of producing dead through a ritual of poisoning, consolidated during the last decades: the contemporary Suruwaha becoming preys of timbó .