Matis y Korubo, contacto y pueblos aislados

Narrativas nativas y etnografía en la Amazonia brasilera

Bibliographic Data

ID3086979
AuthorsBarbara M Arisi (0000-0001-7560-9636, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume1
Issue0
Publication date2010-02-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMundo Amazónico (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2145-5074 • E-ISSN: 2145-5082
PublisherUniversidad Nacional de Colombia (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.5113/ma.1.10291
OpenAlexW2168634900
LanguageES
Citations received2

This article is about isolation, contact, and relations between two Amazonian indigenous peoples: the Matis and the Korubo. Both groups, of the Panoan linguistic family, live in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The Matis were contacted by the Funai (the Brazilian agency for indigenous affairs) in 1976, and they worked as intermediaries helping the Brazilian government to make contact with the Korubo in 1996. Since then, the Matis have been the main translators and mediators between the Korubo and the rest of the world (indigenous and non-indigenous). Based on my investigation, I propose to classify "isolation" in different ways and to relate the Matis' own narratives about their contact with their neighbors the Korubo in order to approximate a native conception of what "isolation" and "isolated peoples" mean-if they mean anything at all

Agency (philosophy · Amazon rainforest · Art · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Humanities · Indigenous · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Indigenous Cultures and History · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Philosophy · Ecology

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