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Handy times - history, sociality and transformation into indigenous Jurua-Purus.

Abstract

The present dissertation analyses time and history concepts of the Kulina (Arawá), Paumari (Arawá), Kanamari (Katukina) and Kaxinawá (Pano), groups that inhabit the Juruá and Purus rivers’ region, in Southwest Amazonia, in the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. These indigenous peoples, although speaking languages of different language families, are integrated into a regional system and, when referring to their histories, they similarly divide it into times or ages. In this dissertation, I do a comparative bibliographical work focused in these times to show that they can be interpreted as defining specific socialities. Each of these indigenous ages define a particular a life’s character or manner, that rejoins aspects of territoriality, social morphology, kinship bonds, relationship with “others”, acquired knowledge, habitation patterns, body, person and material culture. Thus, the kind of indigenous temporality analyzed here points to histories marked by a strong feature of disjunction, that is incompatible with ideas of chronology and irreversibility that characterize other notions of time. Keywords: Time – Indigenous history – Juruá – Purus – Kulina – Kaxinawá – Kanamari – Paumari