Paper short abstract

The purpose is to consider djeoromitxi indigenous ways of living and inhabiting the land through movements tied to founding and re-founding villages, involve intrahuman and transespecific relations with spirit beings. In this investigation, kinship, leadership and territory themes are all intricade.

Paper long abstract

The paper's purpose is to consider indigenous ways of living and inhabiting the land. To do this, I situate myself ethnographically between the constitution of djeoromitxi places (speakers of a Macro-Jê language; inhabitants of southern Amazonia) and their history of territorial invasion, deaths by epidemics and forced displacement. The post-hecatomb movements tied to founding and re-founding villages, involve intrahuman and transespecific relations with spirit beings: game, fish, trees' owners, dead relatives and evil spirits. The ethnography of the djeoromitxi' places points to a certain sharing of ground between kinship, politics (leadership) and territory. Additionally, this ground-sharing contains an indigenous reflection on non-indigenous people.