When tortoise invented the vagina: body breaches among the Araweté
Before, there were no vaginas. This article narrates an episode told to me by an old man of the Araweté ethnic group, a people speaking a Tupi-Guarani language, living in the Middle Xingu river. In the story, the mythical jaboti brought the vaginas from the place where the sun sets, giving rise to w...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2022
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/maloca/article/view/15835 |
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| Summary: | Before, there were no vaginas. This article narrates an episode told to me by an old man of the Araweté ethnic group, a people speaking a Tupi-Guarani language, living in the Middle Xingu river. In the story, the mythical jaboti brought the vaginas from the place where the sun sets, giving rise to women and sex. I will, then, address the need to ingest the iwirara infusion after menarche, and I will relate this moment to two other occasions of bodily opening among this people: childbirth and murder (when there were still wars). I will discuss, at last, the constitutive openness of the female corporality, and the way in which an open body engenders breaches for unmoderated communication with other agencies of the cosmos. |
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| ISSN: | 2675-3111 |
