The contemporary Tenetehára woman: ethnic identity, gender and social movements

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Cintia Maria Santana da
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Martins, Marci Fileti
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/26442
• topic: Discurso. Mulher Tenetehára contemporânea. Identidade étnica. Gênero. Movimentos sociais.; Contemporary Tenetehára woman. Ethnic identity. Genre. Social movements.

The article analyzes the construction of contemporary Tenetehára women’s identity. These women project themselves, nationally and internationally, through their roles in social movements. The proposed analysis, based on theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis, shows that the current discourse of indigenous women empowerment, which is mostly emphasized in social movements, works by reinforcing the role the tenetehára women already have within their own group. In fact, balance of power within the Tenetehára socio-cultural universe establishes gender relations (roles of women/men), the defining ingredients to these women identity constitution. Gender relations in the Tenetehára universe seem to be constituted by a “flexibility” between the roles of women and the men, which gives women the possibility to occupying "male" positions. This displacement of roles is tolerated, and even desired, by the community, given that they strength the Tenetehára people as a group.