O dom e a tradição indígena Kapinawá (ensaio sobre uma noção nativa de autoria)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the native notion of authorship found in the Kapinawa Indian community, localized in Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. Based on the notion of a historical anthropology, I analyze the authorship as an invented tradition that results from a political process of ethnic emergence. Through the ethno history of this Indian group, I present the context of construction of an Indian tradition - the Tore ritual - that legitimates itself by using categories pertaining to a religious tradition of Northeast Brazil called Jurema's complex. By doing so, I intend to show the relation formed between the Tore ritual and the emergence of a native notion of authorship constructed in it.