The contemporary Tenetehára woman: ethnic identity, gender and social movements

Authors

  • Cintia Maria Santana da Silva Articulação das Mulheres Indígenas do Maranhão
  • Marci Fileti Martins Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/rbla.v11i1.26442

Keywords:

Contemporary Tenetehára woman. Ethnic identity. Genre. Social movements.

Abstract

The article analyzes the construction of contemporary Tenetehára women’s identity. These women project themselves, nationally and internationally, through their roles in social movements. The proposed analysis, based on theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis, shows that the current discourse of indigenous women empowerment, which is mostly emphasized in social movements, works by reinforcing the role the tenetehára women already have within their own group. In fact, balance of power within the Tenetehára socio-cultural universe establishes gender relations (roles of women/men), the defining ingredients to these women identity constitution. Gender relations in the Tenetehára universe seem to be constituted by a “flexibility” between the roles of women and the men, which gives women the possibility to occupying "male" positions. This displacement of roles is tolerated, and even desired, by the community, given that they strength the Tenetehára people as a group.

Author Biographies

  • Cintia Maria Santana da Silva, Articulação das Mulheres Indígenas do Maranhão
    Mestra pelo Mestrado Profissional em Linguística e Línguas Indígenas ”“ PROFLLIND, do Museu Nacional-UFRJ. É Vice-coordenadora da Articulação das Mulheres Indígenas do Maranhão (AMIMA), Conselheira da União das Mulheres Indígenas da Amazônia (UMIAB) e Secretaria Executiva da Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA).
  • Marci Fileti Martins, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Professora do Mestrado Profissional em Linguística e Línguas Indígenas ”“ PROFLLIND, do Departamento de Antropologia - Museu Nacional-UFRJ.

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Published

2019-07-31

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2019)

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How to Cite

The contemporary Tenetehára woman: ethnic identity, gender and social movements. (2019). Revista Brasileira De Linguística Antropológica, 11(1), 101-128. https://doi.org/10.26512/rbla.v11i1.26442