RELAÇÕES ESPIRITUAIS COM O TERRITÓRIO: uma análise antropológica sobre a importância dos rituais e das Ñandesy para os Guarani Kaiowá

Abstract

The research presented is the result of scientific initiation and is part of the research project “ÑANDESY and OGUATÁ PORÃ – anthropological study of Kaiowá and Guarani women in the context of mobility and borders” and aimed to understand the relational dynamics between indigenous prayer women of the Guarani ethnic group and Kaiowá in the (re)construction of the territory in the face of economic impositions by agribusiness with support from the government of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. We sought to verify how the ethnological theories learned during the Social Sciences course apply/dialogue with the context regional, emphasizing the relationships produced between national society and indigenous peoples. A survey was carried out on violence committed against prayer women (Ñandesy) between the years 2020 and 2022 in the southern region of the state, in which we highlighted the attacks on prayer women as part of the process of epistemicide and genocide practiced against the Guarani and Kaiowá in favor of monocultures, developed as the state's main economic source. Preliminary data shows how one of the causes of violence are interested interests composing political relationships and affecting the cultural and religious production of the Kaiowá people, with these people having their cosmological and subjective perspectives crossed by the marketing logic applied to their bodies, mentality and territories.