“Nós, Ticuna, temos que cuidar da nossa cultura”: um estudo sobre o ritual de iniciação feminina entre os Ticuna de Umariaçú I, Tabatinga, Alto Solimões (AM)

Abstract

This work analyses the greatest female initiation ritual carried out among the Ticuna people, the New Girl ceremony. Ticuna people are spread along Brazil’s triple border, Peru and Colombia, however, the biggest part of the communities are found along Solimões river (AM). Besides showing the ethnography of a ritual carried out in the Ticuna indigenous community of Umariaçu I/Tabatinga (AM), this present research analyses and describes a possible translation to some of the New Girl ritual singings in order to understand how this ritual of Ticuna people is entered in their lives. As a final result, this study warns about the low occurrence of sung singings and observes that few participants know and are able to follow these few singings. Therefore, this work contributes to set out how the disappearance of the ritual will block the understanding of ways, which singings show up in this groups lives and how this Indians think of and rate their singings in the ritual.