A voz feminina em Gãh Ré, terra madura do Morro Santana: xamanismo e espacialidade

Abstract

The present work consists of collaborative research with the Kaingang Indigenous people of the Gãh Ré community, located on Morro Santana in Porto Alegre, RS. Critiquing the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being, as well as hegemonic forms of knowledge production, we seek to articulate experiences of resistance expressed in community practices involving shamanism and ancestrality, regarding their spatiality and health care from the perspective of the vẽnh-kagta. We used the methodology of counter-cartography combined with militant research, understanding that this combination is appropriate for the research objective and the decolonial perspective, both of space and of knowledge production. The choice of this methodology reinforces its capacity as a political tool to confront the extermination, assimilation, and tutelage by the state – conditions imposed on native peoples since the arrival of European colonizers – as it assumes an ethical and political commitment to the community involved. The results obtained, far from exhausting the subject, provide a theoretical contribution, for reflection and action, aiming to strengthen the community, the visibility of Kaingang culture and the defense of Morro Santana as an ancestral territory.