Kuñangue ñandesy: os Kaiowás de Aral Moreira entre conflitos e resistências para manter seus modos de ser

Abstract

The present work is an ethnographic research among the kuñangue ñandesy (female shamans) living at Vila Satélite, Aral Moreira municipality, southern Mato Grosso do Sul - a region historically inhabited by indigenous peoples. The research's theme are the struggles and resistance of the Kaiowá and Guarani ñandesy in maintaining the ñande reko (our way of being) and, in this efford, the descriptive exercise evidenced, based on the kuñangue ñandesy's narratives, that the economic model of the local agriculture is directly embedded in the conflicts and in the new life routes of the indigenous - above all, the struggle for recovering of their traditional territory and the new spatial configuration in which they are inserted, such as living in the "periphery of the periphery". In addition, the work provides a brief discussion of the historical impacts caused on the Kaiowá and Guarani by the expropriation of traditional territories, the confinement in reservations and the sarambi (dispersion), that affected them in the past and still affect them. The dissertation concludes that, in a context of conflicts, the kuñangue ñandesy have specific ways of fulfilling the role of guardians of the kaiowá knowledge, which is permeated by relations of production of the teko porã (good and beautiful way of life), between prayers and songs.