Animais demais… os xerimbabos no espaço doméstico matis (Amazonas)

  • Erikson P
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Abstract

Para os Matis, o espaço obtido da floresta para habitar e cultivar representa uma conquista sobre o universo dos animais e dos espíritos, um espaço socializado que deve ser preservado a todo custo contra o possível retorno dos antigos donos. Por isso, os animais familiares admitidos na maloca formam, enquanto categoria liminar, na fronteira entre o social e o anti-social, um perigo simbólico que pode ser comparado aos trechos de florestas em processo de regeneração. As restrições topográficas impostas aos animais familiares refletem portanto a ambiguidade inerente à sua inserção social.For the Matis, human dwelling space and areas used for slash-and-burn agriculture are but temporary clearings in the jungle and as such, ground gained against its original inhabitants. Great care is therefore taken to protect this socialized space against possible recapture by its pristine owners: animals and forest-dwelling spirit beings. Pet animals, as a liminal category on the threshold between social and anti-social, therefore appear as symbolically dangerous, in many ways like fallow gardens on their way towards forest regeneration. The topographical restrictions imposed on pets therefore reflect the inherent ambiguity and frailty of their social integration.

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Erikson, P. (2015). Animais demais… os xerimbabos no espaço doméstico matis (Amazonas). Anuário Antropológico, v.37 n.2, 15–32. https://doi.org/10.4000/aa.110

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