When Jacundá taught women to play the sacred flutes: circulation of knowledge among women in the Northwest Amazon
The Upper Rio Negro is one of the most complex Amerindian regional systems, composed of ethnic groups belonging to the Tukano, Arawak and Hupda linguistic families and having an extensive body of cosmogonic narratives, one of them the appropriation of sacred flutes by women. In the Tukano (Ye’pa Mas...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2023
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/maloca/article/view/17277 |
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| Summary: | The Upper Rio Negro is one of the most complex Amerindian regional systems, composed of ethnic groups belonging to the Tukano, Arawak and Hupda linguistic families and having an extensive body of cosmogonic narratives, one of them the appropriation of sacred flutes by women. In the Tukano (Ye’pa Masa) versions of this one, a narrative character stands out as an agent in the transfiguration of women into shamans: the Jacundá (Crenicichlajohana). Explore the recent literature on the circulation of knowledge to question it as an involuntary protagonist of knowledge in the transmission of masculine vitals, discussing the eclipsing of the study networks that have women as their highlight: the farm, pottery, the making of gourds and handicrafts of tucum. Women constitute their knowledge circulation networks in a more circular and horizontal way than men. |
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| ISSN: | 2675-3111 |
