Etnocídio para além das perdas culturais: pessoas, corporalidades e a multiplicação dos mausencontros

Abstract

This work sought to produce reflections capable of offering subsidies for greater Brazilian legal openness to the Difference involving indigenous societies. The dichotomy of violence against ethnic minorities in terms of genocide and ethnocide still produces perverse effects, and perhaps the most important of these is to take ethnocide as a "less violent" crime that affects the visible and invisible manifestations of culture while "spirit of a people" (Volkgeist). Historical contexts related to the early framings of this crime demonstrate that ethnic violence is not relative. The reflexive apparatuses produced by the Americanist ethnology of the late 1970s and early 20th century marked a greater intimacy with the Amerindian "native categories". By using these tools, the phenomenological framework of our Western vision employing metaphysical and objectifying conceptions and that do enough for the indigenous worlds populated by agencies with status of subject. The advance in juridical acceptance of these realities as facts and not mere collective representations seems essential to us not for the salvation of a fragile Other but for all of us to have some future.