The Women’s Re-established: cosmological and original protagonism of indigenous women at the guidelines of centers of power social and political in Brazil and in the world

Abstract

This article consists of a theoretical framework linked to a photography experience in the field of photography and aims to reflect and provoke a Brazilian indigenous woman and her contemporary representation. Investigating their fight guidelines during the 1st Indigenous Women March Territory: our body, our spirit, held in Brasília - DF on August 13, 2019. We question the colonizing gaze on their bodies and identities, their worldview, their way of life. It seeks to reflect on important agendas in the political, economic, and social spheres which constitute the practice and organization of these women, which coexist with emergencies of new constructions in the core of power. Who are these cosmological and original women, who return to their sacred sites and have resisted for more than centuries in Brazil? The experience is part of an observation and photo collection field that is part of the master’s thesis, which studies a representation of contemporary Brazilian indigenous women, seeking an understanding and translation of their strength and tradition, in addition to the material visibility provided by photography and consistent photographic analysis methods, which consider covering all the complexity that can exist in an indigenous woman.