A study of the spelling book Víhikaxopovope Yúhoikopea Ûti Vemó’u: Terena people’s identity and discourse

• Autor(a) principal: GUERRA, Vânia Maria Lescano'
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: SOUZA, Claudete Cameschi de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Moara (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/moara/article/view/2061

Abstract: Starting to a discursive and deconstructive perspective, based on Derrida and Foucault’s studies, it has a goal to problematize how indigenous identity emerges in the writing of spelling book for Terena speakers, published in 1972, and used, until the present days, to support didactic-pedagogic tasks, mainly by Indians from Aquidauana and Miranda (MS). Through the examination of linguistic marks of exclusion into texts from spelling book, the establishment of identity process was analyzed. Besides, supports this analysis, under the transdisciplinary perspective (CORACINI, 2007), the idea of transculturation as a process able to generate a diversity of hybrid cultural elements, as a result of conflict or pacific blend of two or more cultures (MIGNOLO, 2003). In this discursive context of historical power, globalized, the spelling book’s discourse contributes for indigenous people’s relations of knowledge/power, laying on them “new identities”, as white, enforcing them to a making identity considered flow and multiple. Keywords: Indigenous people. Didactic Material. Identities. Cultural plurality