21 research outputs found
Bem viver e propriedade: o problema da diferenciação entre os Xikrin-MebĂȘngĂŽkre (KayapĂł)
Woman, culture, and society. Edited by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere. Contributors: Joan Bamberger [and others]
Bibliography: p. [321]-339.xi, 352 p
ShajaĂł â histories of an invented savage
Through multiple stories about ShajaĂł, an untold history of the Peruvian Amazon unfolds. This article, based on extensive archival research and fieldwork, brings together multivocal accounts about an Ese Eja man who allegedly killed a Catholic priest in 1932 and who, despite the large-scale expeditions sent out to capture him, was not apprehended until 1942. Through ongoing tales of ShajaĂł, the intersubjective ways in which memory is shaped and employed to influence and make sense of sociopoltical contexts is revealed in the exchanges between a notable âsavageâ and various economies in different historical settingsâthe rubber boom, extractivism upheld by debt-peonage, Catholic missionization and today's environmental service economy. This exploration questions the construction, reproduction and transformation of the multiple, though not always shared, experiential and interpretive frameworks that shape the historical consciousness of individual and collective memories over time. It also suggests that âdisrememberingâ, in archival and oral accounts, reflects a critical political awareness of history's valid flexibility. Here, narratives are rewoven so that history continues to be told in ways that ensure that âShajaĂł storiesâ never truly end