Native Guiana

Esta é uma tese sobre os processos de fabricação da pessoa e do parentesco entre os Katwena e os Tunayana, povos Caribe do norte amazônico, situados na região de tríplice fronteira Brasil-Guiana-Suriname, no noroeste do estado do Pará. Ela se baseia em uma pesquisa etnográfica realizada entre os anos de 2012 e 2018 em diferentes aldeias nos rios Mapuera, Turuni e alto curso do rio Trombetas, onde os Katwena e os Tunayana vivem em intercâmbios com diversos outros povos, notadamente os Waiwai, por intermédio dos quais entraram em contato com a religião cristã, em vertente evangélica, há cinco décadas. Este estudo articula uma investigação sobre a noção de pessoa aos sentidos da vida entre parentes e ao cristianismo, três domínios nos quais a capacidade ou potência de transformação ocupa lugar central.

This dissertation explores the processes involved in the fabrication of the person and of kinship among the Katwena and Tunayana, Carib peoples located in northwestern Pará state, Brazil, in the region along the borders with Guyana and Suriname. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2018 in various villages on the Mapuera, Turuni, and upper Trombetas rivers. The Katuena and Tunayana engage in exchanges with other peoples, notably the Waiwai, through whom they entered into contact with evangelical Christian missionaries five decades ago. This study investigates the interconnections among the notion of the person, the meanings of life among kin, and Christianity, three domains in which the capacity or
potency of transformation plays a central role.

This article introduces the anthropology of property relations to indigenous Amazonia, where property has long been assumed to be absent, and shows that focusing on Amazonian forms of property can lead to greater understanding of native practices and institutions. The article begins by showing that the Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo of southern Suriname have a wide range of practices and values which can usefully be understood in terms of property. This provides the basis for a discussion of the analytical importance of the anthropology of property for Amazonia, followed by a consideration of the place of Amazonian forms of property in the context of anthropological
theory. [Key words: Akuriyo, Amazonia, control, creativity, leadership,material culture, ownership, property, Suriname, Trio, Wayana.]

Two "Guiana war clubs" with incised designs, a woman's apron of glass beads, and a man's conical cap made from the spathe of the troolie palm in the collection of the former Museum Stobæanum (now part of the Historical Museum of Lund University), collected apparently on different occasions during the eighteenth century, with comparative notes.