A QUESTÃO WARAO NO CONTEXTO DIASPÓRICO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The Warao issue in the brazilian diasporic context currently comprises the fate of approximately ten thousand indigenous people who have crossed the international border between Venezuela and Brazil since 2014, making up a decade of diasporic experience. Inscribed in a broader macrostructural context of societal crisis at a global level, this displacement of human masses encompasses millions of individuals displaced from their cultural, territorial, linguistic and, consequently, subjective and moral-emotional autochthony. We aim to develop an analysis of the Warao Question – based on ethnographies, ongoing fieldwork and specialized bibliography – that can subsidize not only the academic debate in Indigenous Anthropology and Ethnology, but also contribute to the understanding of the Warao Culture by public authorities and civil society. We problematize the transformations undergone by the Warao culture in the diaspora regime with regard to the social organization and kinship of this ethnic group, its traditional forms of knowledge in intercultural mutation, its identity models of person and collectivity and, finally, the construction of socio-ecological-territorial systems in the tangle of agencies and objects that make up the reinvented tutelage that conditions Warao life in Brazil.