O profeta e o principal: a ação política ameríndia e seus personagens / The relationship among the ancient Tupi of the brazilian coast, between prophetic movements and the political domain.
AUTOR(ES)
Renato Sztutman
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
This thesis focus on the relationship, among the ancient Tupi of the brazilian coast, between prophetic movements and the political domain. In so doing, it returns to some classic discussions that play an important part in anthropologys history, as those which were carried by Pierre and Hélène Clastres; the fi rst one hardly engaged on the foundation of a political anthropology. Comparing data of past societies with recent ethnographies of contemporary indigenous peoples, this thesis proposes a refl ection on Amerindian political agency, stressing the ways people and groups, leaders and sociopolitical units, can be made (and thus be extended), as well as regarding the mechanisms that offer resistance to the stabilization of these people and groups, which could result in a fixed asymmetry.
ASSUNTO(S)
amerindians; ancient tupi; political agency; prophetism; war ação política; ameríndios; antigos tupi da costa; guerra; profetismo
