Caçando os devoradores: Agência, “meninas indígenas” e enquadramento neocolonial

• Autor(a) principal: Olivar, José Miguel Nieto
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de antropologia (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ra/article/view/156129
• topic: Gender; Sexuality; Violence; Sexual Exploitation; Amazon; Fronts/Borderlands; Gênero; sexualidade; violência; exploração sexual; Amazônia; fronteiras

This paper is a result of the anthropological research on gender and borderlands that I have conducted since 2010 in the Brazilian Amazon. Here, I will address violence through an analysis of the relations between “indigenous” and “white” peoples through the frame of a fabricated Amazon city, as expressions of (neo)colonial body politics. Drawing from the perspective of urban indigenous women, I will focus on their conjugal, sexual and economic engagement with the “white man’s world” (the bodies, city and the State included). This engagement is understood in terms of gendered indigenous agency: the capacity of these young women to deal with, to desire, to resist, to suffer, and to appropriate the goods, the gifts and the bodies of the colonial project.