The Kagwahiva of the other branch:: Katawixi and Juma histories, territories and landscapes in the Madeira - Purus rivers interfluve (AM)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira Furquim, Laura
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cangussu, Daniel, Shiratori, Karen
• 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/46447
• topic: Arqueologia Amazônica; História Indígena; Povos Tupi-Guarani; Kagwahiva; Indígenas Isolados e de Recente Contato

The presence of Tupi Kagwahiva groups in the interfluve between the Madeira and Purus rivers dates back at least to the beginning of the colonial period, which led to various processes of genocide, epidemics and forced attempts at religious conversion. The Juma and Katawixi peoples, respectively classified as groups recently contacted and isolated by the State, are “islands” that once integrated networks of relations within an extensive Tupi-Guarani territory in the south of Amazonas, with pre-colonial roots. We gather here archaeological, historical and oral narratives about this context, seeking to evaluate the paths that led to a drastic decrease in the Juma population during the 20th century, and to the choice of isolation by the Katawixi in the 1980s. From the vegetal vestiges and monuments present in their forests, especially linked to the Brazilnut trees, we seek to understand how it is possible to glimpse the Kagwahiva resistances in and through the forests, in which their presence and affections are marked. This article intends to be a contribution to the interdisciplinary research on the Tupi indigenous peoples, and to present a long-term context that involved diverse forms of interaction with non-indigenous people, until culminating in isolation or almost complete extermination. A historical perpective is fundamental to understanding isolation as the fruit of genocide, and points to the need for long-term policies for the protection and monitoring of isolated peoples.