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WORLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNION

CONGRESS 2024​

Paper

Multiespecies relations in a indigenous village during the 19th century in Paraná: the case of São Jerônimo (Empire of Brazil)

presenters

    André da Silva Santos Voitechen

    Nationality: Brasil

    Residence: Brasil

    Unesp - Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" / Câmpus de Assis

    Presence:Online

Keywords:

Multiespecies; Indigenous; Paraná/Brazil; 19th century;

Abstract:

During the 19th century, in the recently independent province of Paraná, the empire’s indigenous politics construct a series of indigenous villages, concentrating the buildings in the inexplored regions full of florests and autochthonous people. In this sense, the government intended convert the amerindians to christianity and to expropriate their lands and labor to the capitalist development in the moment. In those spaces, we encounter then two differents visions of the world and its relations with no-humans: one indigenous, that mantain kinship relations with nature; and a colonizer vision, that explore and treats nature as commodities. One crucial concept to the development of this research, is the idea of multiespecies relationships. Anna Tsing (2019) states with this, that every landscape is formed necessarily by the involvement of several species whether humans or not. Thus, we find in the Paraná on this context, an space full of interactions and symbioses, as proposed by Donna Haraway (2016). In addition to the species that already coexisted with the indigenous people, came then the colonizers introducing other species, as cows, horses, pigs and microorganisms. Then, it is with that dual cosmovisions and its differents relations in light, that we focus to comprehend how Kaingang groups had organize their politics, resistence and connections with with other humans and no-humans, specificaly studying the case of São Jerônimo’s village.