“Eu sou o gavião e peguei a minha caça”. O ritual Pepcahàc dos Ràmkôkamẽkra/Canela e seus cantos

Abstract

This thesis has as main point ethnography Pepcahàc ritual of the Ràmkôkamẽkra/Canela, a Gê speaking people of Central Brazil and its musics. Regarded as "Hawk´s Party", this is a ritual that deals with male initiation and training. One of its main targets is the formation of bodies and people prepared to face adulthood with the strength of jaguar and the endurance of stone. To produce people and bodies goes to live moments of liminality, near to the spirits and other beings, which may be sometimes “Others, but another one, maybe an “We”, especially in the sharing of powers to the support of all beings. And one of the ways to support these bodies is through the musics that enable both the interaction with such powers, and with the happiness needed to maintain and reproduce whole life. Starting from the pep-cahàc ritual, goes to describe the musical-ritual universe of Ràmkôkamẽkra/Canela which is a dense web of cancionais systems, performances, body ornaments, body painting, body restrictions, kinship relationship and formal friendships, which are central for the constitution either the subject or the collectivity of these people. With the analysis of the Pepcahàc cancional system and its cancional sets, we can understand the musical richness of that system who has, as one of its major goals, build resistant persons and strengthen the collective, renewing and strengthening the strategies also used for coexistence between different people gathered in the village Escalvado.