Sob o sol não somos companheiros? articulações transespecíficas e de gênero a partir de concepções Tukano do sangue menstrual e da gestação

Abstract

This dissertation was developed with the aim of reflecting on the position occupied by indigenous women at the intersection of domestic and political-ritual spheres. Drawing on themes related to women’s daily activities, I sought to understand how gendered roles and knowledge are articulated to ensure the reproduction and continuity of Tukano-speaking clans in the Uaupés River region, and thereby to investigate whether the extra-human otherness activated in ritual contexts is also present in the exercise of everyday life. This investigation was conducted through a cross-referenced literature review of two sets of works: the ethnographies by Christine Hugh-Jones (1979), Dany Mahecha (2004), and Melissa de Oliveira (2016); and the articles by Geraldo Andrello and João Vianna (2022), Pedro Lolli and Geraldo Andrello (2024), and Geraldo Andrello and Luiz Nascimento (2024), whose formulations were examined in light of the discussions developed by the first three authors and in conjunction with the large-scale comparative work of Luisa Elvira Belaunde (2005). The broader arguments put forward by these authors—briefly introduced in the opening chapter—are explored in depth in chapters two, three, four, and five, which, in that order, consist of reviews of the ethnographies by Christine Hugh-Jones (1979), Dany Mahecha (2004), and Melissa de Oliveira (2016), as well as analyses of issues and hypotheses related to the topic. This approach prompted me to consider the role of the placenta and breastfeeding within the described interweaving and, thus, to examine the issue of women’s participation in the collective reproductive process from other perspectives.