Os Eré e ‘o Tal do Pirarucu’: equívocos epistemológicos e ontológicos a respeito de suas agências predatórias entre os Kujubim (Rondônia)

Abstract

The Kujubim and other indigenous people that inhabit the Indigenous Land of the Guaporé River in Rondônia suffered as a consequence of the awful flood. Although the flood caused impacts of different effects it can have peculiar presence, Kujubim says, that had never been seen, perceived or felt along of history in the Guaporé River. These beings, the Kujubim, refer to themselves as ‘o tal pirarucu’ and attribute their appearance to ‘eré’, the non-indians, that they have the power to raise animals in the weirs from marked distinction at the origin of the world. By occupying congruent positions in Kujubim speeches and practices, the ‘eré’ and the ‘o tal pirarucu’ end up sharing an ambiguous and equivalent statute: both have a predatory and overwhelming agency. Thereby, defending an idea that beings ‘are’ never for Kujubim, but there is always ‘be’ something or someone in the sense of state.