Human’s metamorphoses into preys of timbó. The Suruwaha and the death by poisoning

Authors

  • Miguel Aparicio Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2015.108576

Keywords:

Suruwaha, Purus River, Indigenous Transformations, Indigenous Suicide

Abstract

The Suruwaha of the last generations consolidated the practice of poisoning by timbó, which eventually became the main causa mortis of this indigenous group from the Purus River valley. Attempting to overcome the suicidological Western conceptions, and going beyond purely sociological explanations, this paper proposes a translation (Carneiro da Cunha, 1998), which provides access to native thought about death and transformation. According to the Suruwaha subjectivation regimes, and as a completion of the shamanic processes, death by poisoning, captured by non-human subjectivity of the spirit of timbó, changes the dead people into prey for excellence. Through the practice of poisoning, the Suruwaha project, in a transformational world, their constitution as human in contrast to non-human dead people, transformed in the new condition of preys of timbó

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Author Biography

  • Miguel Aparicio, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional
    Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social do Museu Nacional

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Published

2015-12-22

Issue

Vol. 58 No. 2 (2015)

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Aparicio, M. (2015). Human’s metamorphoses into preys of timbó. The Suruwaha and the death by poisoning. Revista De Antropologia, 58(2), 314-344. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2015.108576