Da luta ao luto: um estudo etnográfico da cosmopraxis comunicacional dos Panhĩ (Apinajé) da aldeia Pyka Méx

Abstract

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the communicational cosmopraxis of the Apinajé people. They are speakers of the Panhĩ Kapẽr language, from the Jê linguistic branch, present in the Bico do Papagaio region in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. Starting from the concept of communicational cosmopraxis as an alternative communication experience that subverts conventional logics and forms, focused on media processes and mediatization, I propose an interworld communication in an attempt to build epistemological paths where the indigenous and non-indigenous worlds can coexist in a movement of listening and mutual affectation (OLIVEIRA, 2018;2020). Through the ethnographic experience among the Panhĩ people of Pyka Méx village, I highlight memory as a category of territorial claim responsible for articulating Struggle, Land, and Mourning as inseparable elements in the constitution of being Apinajé. I chose to describe and analyze each of these elements based on three events: the Apinajé responses to the health emergency of COVID-19, the struggle for Land in the demarcation and reparation process of territorial boundaries, and mourning among the Apinajé. The communicational cosmopraxis of the Panhĩ from the Pyka Méx village reveals the margin as a space of resistance and evokes the memories of the struggle for land in the “time of the first ones”, reactivating actions to protect the Apinajé body- territory through the formation of new generations of Guardians.