Os Yanomamɨ do Rio Marauiá: trajetória e contato

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to analyze the experience of interethnic contact with the Yanomamɨ. This research has three chapters: “Yanomamɨ, a plural singular”; “From boarding schools to differentiated schools”; and “Interethnic Contact”. In the first chapter, I tell part of a story about the Yanomami: their movement of territorial and demographic expansion, cultural characteristics and the violence of intensified contact from the 1970s. In the second chapter, I present the various contact agents with whom Yanomamɨ relate inside and outside the Indigenous Land, especially those that are part of the processes linked to schooling and I contradict the ideology of the Salesian schools and the differentiated school. In the third chapter, I locate the trajectory of this group in three contact periods: indirect contacts, intermittent contacts, and permanent contacts. The methodology used is based on a qualitative profile focused on literature review and ethnography