O feminino Sateré-Mawé e suas manifestações simbólicas na Amazônia

Abstract

This study assumes the purpose of unveiling the senses and feminine meanings in Sateré-Mawé ethnicity, its importance and influence, seeking to understand it in the context of mythology, rituals and symbolic own manifestations of ethnicity. The study addresses a methodological and theoretical perspective of investigative nature based on the dialogic, suggested by Edgar Morin, which allowed us to weave a conversation network with other types of knowledge. The locus of the research was the Community Simon on indigenous land Andirá-Marau, Barreirinha / AM. We seek to know if there is really a feminine principle which gave rise to Sateré-Mawé people, its arqué under which laid the foundations of their material and immaterial culture. Investigate the rich and symbolic mythology of Mawé people meant diving in the ontogenesis of these people who have in the female its origin and the support column composed of the triad: sakpó, Tucandeira Ant and young girl. The main results revealed that the female ancestor is what founds the ethnicity and that women are central subjects in the life of their people, guardians of their culture and responsible for the continuity of ethnicity in historical time. We must conclude from the revealed fact that the sakpó, sacred drink of Sateré-Mawé people, derived from guaraná, is the head of Mawé people, one that illuminates the word and gives success in the political agreements and in the social relationships woven by these people. Finally, it should be considered that women are responsible for making the sakpó, which gives them primacy in the mythical conduction of the ethnicity.