De corpos duplos: mestiçagem, mistura e relação entre os Karajá de Buridina (Aruanã-GO).

Abstract

Buridina is a small Karaja village wi-thin the center of the tourist city of Aruana (Goias,Central Brazil), by the Araguaia river side. In the1970s, its population started a series of marria-ges with the local non-indigenous people. Today,most of them are mesticos. This fact, added to thispopulation’s wide knowledge of and involvementwith the non-indigenous world, often caused Buri-dina to be stigmatized as acculturated. By conside-ring interethnic marriages, the children generatedby them and the way the Karaja classify these chil-dren as a start point to explore the indigenous formof the relation between indigenous and non-indi-genous perspectives, this article argues that, for theinhabitants of Buridina, learning and experiencingthe world of the (non-indigenous) tori does not im-ply a sort of “cultural loss”. Rather than a process ofacculturation, it is matter of a double bodily expe-rience in which both perspectives are related to eachother in a divided unit.