Keka Imawri: narrativas e códigos de Guerra entre os Palikur-Arukwayene

Abstract

The dissertation is a historical-anthropological study about the Keka between the Palikur-Arukwayene people of the Urukauá river that demonstrates the constitution of the autonomous person among the peoples that compose the interethnic mosaic on the border of Oiapoque from an event considered bellicose, time in which it seeks to bring to light the indigenous version related to the historical occupation of the Guyanese region that was constituted for centuries as the Caribbean Amazon. Despite the Keka be translated as war by different indigenous interlocutors, the ethnographic quotidian shows that it is best translated as party or warrior competition, addressing principles and motivations for the ritual indigenous bellicosity preceding the European invasion and prevail in different ways, to the shame of the action and the impacts caused by the indigenism of the bordering national states.