Guajá - Kamixatuhujaxa’amỹ jawajaxa’amỹ hajkaminũ ta xi haraka - The late owner of the tortoise wanted to have sex with the late owner of the jaguar

Authors

  • Flávia de Freitas Berto Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) / Integrated Unity of Indigenous School Education Pape Japoharipa 'Yruhu
  • Guilherme Ramos Cardoso Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
  • Hajkaramykỹ a Awa Guajá
  • Ytatxĩ Guajá
  • Manatxika Guajá
  • Tatuxa’a Awa Guajá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n1a25565

Keywords:

Guajá, Tupi-Guarani, Myth, Narrative verbal art

Abstract

This Awa Guajá narrative was recorded in 2016, in the Awa village, Caru Indigenous Land (Maranhão, Brazil) and is narrated by Hajkaramykỹ a Awa Guajá. It is an episode from a myth which has as its main character Kamixatuhujaxa’amỹ na, the owner of the tortoise, and it takes place when animals were “people” and tortoises could run. In this myth, the tortoise and the jaguar meet and the jaguar ends up deceived and dead. In the transcribed episode, the jaguar dies after having sexual intercourse with the tortoise. This is a comic narrative and an example of Awa Guajá verbal art.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v15n1a25565

Author Biographies

Flávia de Freitas Berto, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) / Integrated Unity of Indigenous School Education Pape Japoharipa 'Yruhu

Doutora em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita
Filho” e professora na Unidade Integrada de Educação Escolar Indígena Pape Japoharipa 'Yruhu. PhD in
Linguistics and Portuguese from the São Paulo “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” State University and professor of the
Integrated Unity of Indigenous School Education Pape Japoharipa 'Yruhu

Guilherme Ramos Cardoso, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Doutorando em Antropologia Social pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. PhD candidate in Social
Anthropology at the Campinas State University (São Paulo).

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Published

2019-04-23

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019): Indigenous Languages: verbal arts

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