Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais (Jul 2012)

Ka'a Wata, "walk in the woods" hunting and territory in an Amazonian Tupi group

  • Uirá Garcia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2012v17n1p172
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 1
pp. 172 – 190

Abstract

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Based on the analysis of the ways in which the territory is designed and used for hunting in a Tupi-Guarani people of the eastern Amazon, the Awa-Guajá, this paper presents a first analysis of the concept of territory and territorial mobility in people. Introduce the notions of harakwá and Wata, arguing that the actions involved in the forest, expressed mainly by the ideas of "walk" and "hunting", are central to the understanding of territoriality Awá-Guajá.