ÒRÈ RÜ ÚKUẼ, sobre palavra e conselho: conhecimento e memória local na comunidade Mágüta (Tikuna) de Macedonia (Sul do Trapézio Amazônico- Colômbia)

Abstract

The Tikuna or Mágüta indigenous communities that nowadays inhabit the Amazon River / Solimões riverbank, in addition to contact with the school, the Catholic and Evangelical churches and tourism driven mainly by private companies, maintain an increasingly closer relationship with other indigenous peoples, with regional societies occupying Amazonian lands (the “new settlers”) and with the different Nation-States (Brazil, Colombia and Peru). New communication technologies also approach with television, the internet and, therefore, the social networks that connect the world. Meanwhile, the indigenous language is yielding ground in the social places of indigenous communities, children and adolescents begin to value and use other languages, other oralities, other forms of communication. In that scene, the Mágüta people, despite the constant and persistent influences of colonial and messianic thought, retain their language, their narratives and their word. In their narratives are expressed forms of knowledge and memory through which they build their position as a people and as a society in the great Amazon. Therefore, this research seeks to make and issue and understand how the knowledge of the word òrè (oral word and mythical word) is put forth in the indigenous Tikuna community of Macedonia, on the Colombian riverbank of the Amazon / Solimões River. Here the interpretations around orality will be important, the local representations that will place on stage the “power” of the word òrè and the memories of the úkue͂board. In this way, the central theme of this thesis explores the various forms of the word Mágüta in the community of Macedonia, to stop at orality and the message stated in the act of advising. Thus, a methodological approach based on the appeal to individual and collective memory is proposed, which explores communicative acts and researches together with local Mágüta actors (teachers, evangelical pastors, school community and traditional doctors) who still use the native language in the community. In the end, the message of the òrè speaks about the origin, the heroes, the myths and the social construction of the Mágüta people, but it also speaks about the intimate scenarios of everyday life, from where the word of advice that is usually given is activated to relatives, the community and anyone who wishes to receive.