Tikm'n-Maxakali Cosmocinepolitics: an essay on the invention of a culture and an indigenous cinema (Dossier Intersecting Eyes)

Authors

  • Ruben Caixeta de Queiroz Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
  • Renata Otto Diniz PhD Student in Social Anthropology, Universidade de Brasilia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.142390

Keywords:

Indigenous Cinema, Cosmopolitics, Ritual, Cosmology, Documentary

Abstract

Our aim in this work is to explore ways of making cinema and ritual among the Tikmũ’ũn – also known as the Maxakali. We argue that the ‘way’ of filming and making cinema of this indigenous people cannot be understood without comprehending the logic and strategy employed to perform the rituals that, generally speaking, guide the making of the films. At the same time, by recording these rituals, the rituals and the culture of a people are simultaneously recuperated and multiplied. We also suggest that in order to gain a clearer insight into this cinema, it needs to be understood alongside the concepts that inform Maxakali cosmology, without forgetting that the history narrated for the films (and beyond them) is a history of the Maxakali viewpoint concerning pacification and the harmonious coexistence sought with both the ‘spirits’ and the white world. It amounts to a cosmocinepolitics or, put otherwise, a type of film-ritual.

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Author Biographies

  • Ruben Caixeta de Queiroz, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

    Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Archeology at FA- FICH-UFMG. Researcher CNPq. Editor of Devires magazine - Cinema and Hu- manities. Co-organizer (along with Rosângela Tugny) of the book "African and Indigenous Music in Brazil" (2008). He conducts research with the indigenous societies of the Amazon (Guiana region) since 1994.

  • Renata Otto Diniz, PhD Student in Social Anthropology, Universidade de Brasilia.

    Master in Social Anthropology at UFRJ, National Museum (2006) and PhD student in Social Anthropology at University of Brasilia. She actually conducts research with the Awá-Guajá, indians of Maranhão.

Published

2018-07-23

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How to Cite

Queiroz, Ruben Caixeta de, and Renata Otto Diniz. 2018. “Tikm’n-Maxakali Cosmocinepolitics: An Essay on the Invention of a Culture and an Indigenous Cinema (Dossier Intersecting Eyes)”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2018.142390.