Socioespacialidade, territorialidade e o movimento da Cobra-Canoa da Transformação: o caso Tuyuka

Abstract

By the end of 2015, some Tuyuka Indians belonging to the Opaya sib, traditionally inhabitants of the upper Tiquié River, a region bordering Colombia, "descended" to the Tupé Sustainable Development Reserve, on the left bank of the Negro River, in an area a few kilometers from Manaus, where they founded the Ʉtapinopona-Tuyuka Village. There, they built a maloca and began to offer tourists performances of traditional songs and dances, not to mention typical food the upper Rio Negro Indians. This dissertation works with the hypothesis that this spatial movement performed by the Tuyuka down to the Tupé can be understood as a continuous process of transformation and construction of bodies and localities, as initiated in the context of the mythological journey of the Transformation Cobra-Canoe, when there was only an ancestral protohumanity, passing along to the period of the humanity and eventualy reaching out to the present day. The territoriality of the Tuyuka, in this sense, would obey a complex relational norm, in permanent construction, being shaped in the context of the interaction between the Universe in thought (the mythological space), socio-spatial relations (social space), and landscape itself (the physical space).