On the Way to Jaguar City. Dialogues About the Dreams Along the Pathway to the Big Mountain-Metropolis of the Hupd’äh

Abstract

In this work I seek to understand the relation between conversations about dreams and traveling events which took place during a trip to /Paç Pög/, the “Big Mountain”. The relation between dreams and cosmic displacements have been well exploited in studies on amerindian and mealnesian peoples. It is important to highlight how these oniric itineraries allow experiences in several cosmic levels as well as in big cities where meetings, dialogues and interactions with sodiers, missionaries, merchants reveal images of tension or montages (Taussig, 1987). Based on Bakhtin’s dialogical theory of enunciation (1981) and Urban’s discourse centered approach (2000), I intend to show how verbal interactions with dreams reveal an intersubjective process of meaning institution by means of a particular mode of indexicalization. In what major, the oniric and dialogical emergence of the Jaguar City as an ontological juxtaposition delineates a critical perception of the fast processes of changes, expropriation and violence caused by the increasingly displacements to the city center of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM)?