1278/2009 - Histórias-míticas e construção da pessoa: ambigüidade dos corpos e juventude indígena em um contexto de transformações Mythical stories and person‘s construction: ambiguity of the bodies and indigenous youth in a context of transformations
• Maximiliano Loiola Ponte de Souza - Souza, MLP - Manaus, Amazonas - Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - <maximiliano@amazonia.fiocruz.br>
Área Temática:
Ciências Sociais
Resumo:
As representações sobre a juventude variam histórica e culturalmente. No Alto Rio Negro, vivem grupos indígenas com mais de três séculos de contato com o mundo não-indígena. Nos últimos anos, os rituais de iniciação masculina foram suprimidos e houve a introdução da escola formal. Estes acontecimentos geraram ressignificações nas formas de representar as diferentes fases da vida. Neste trabalho objetivou-se compreender a construção das representações sobre a juventude indígena; como elas se correlacionam com as demais fases do ciclo vital e como contribuem para configurar práticas sociais estruturadas em torno deste grupo social. Analisaram-se diversas histórias-míticas que tratam das relações intergeracionais; estas foram correlacionadas com os termos designativos das diversas da vida, com as outras narrativas nativas e com dados de obtidos a partir da observação participante. O estudo conclui que as representações sobre juventude são configuradas pelos papéis sociais de iniciandos/iniciados, fundidos na atualidade, de modo contraditório, numa categoria genérica e prolongada de estudante, desprovida de estatuto sociológico próprio, alongando a condição liminar desta fase da vida.
Palavras-chave:
Índios sul-americanos
juventude
mudança cultural
Abstract:
The representations on youth vary historically and culturally. In the Upper Rio Negro, live Indigenous groups with more than three centuries of contact with the non-indigenous world. In the last years, the male rites of initiation were suppressed and the formal school was introduced. These events must have generated resignifications in the representations of different phases of the life. This work intended to understand the construction of the indigenous’ representation about youth; how do they correlate with the other phases and how these representations contribute to configure social practices structured around this social group. Several mythical stories dealing with intergenerational relationships have been reviewed; they were correlated with the terms designative of the diverse stages of life, with other local narratives, and with data from participating observation. The study concludes that the representations on youth have been configured by the social roles of the initiating/initiated, currently, in a contradictory fashion, under a generic and prolonged category of student, emptied of its own sociologic by-laws, stretching the liminary condition of this phase of life.
Mythical stories and person‘s construction: ambiguity of the bodies and indigenous youth in a context of transformations
Resumo (abstract):
The representations on youth vary historically and culturally. In the Upper Rio Negro, live Indigenous groups with more than three centuries of contact with the non-indigenous world. In the last years, the male rites of initiation were suppressed and the formal school was introduced. These events must have generated resignifications in the representations of different phases of the life. This work intended to understand the construction of the indigenous’ representation about youth; how do they correlate with the other phases and how these representations contribute to configure social practices structured around this social group. Several mythical stories dealing with intergenerational relationships have been reviewed; they were correlated with the terms designative of the diverse stages of life, with other local narratives, and with data from participating observation. The study concludes that the representations on youth have been configured by the social roles of the initiating/initiated, currently, in a contradictory fashion, under a generic and prolonged category of student, emptied of its own sociologic by-laws, stretching the liminary condition of this phase of life.
Souza, MLP. Histórias-míticas e construção da pessoa: ambigüidade dos corpos e juventude indígena em um contexto de transformações. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2009/nov). [Citado em 23/12/2024].
Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/artigos/historiasmiticas-e-construcao-da-pessoa-ambigidade-dos-corpos-e-juventude-indigena-em-um-contexto-de-transformacoes/4716?id=4716
