Entre ritos e tradições : análise do primeiro filme etnográfico sobre o ritual fúnebre Boe Bororo (1917)

Abstract

This article is located in the investigative field of the History of Mato Grosso and aims to demonstrate that funeral rituals play a crucial role in indigenous communities, as evidenced among the Bororo, na indigenous ethnic group in Brazil. Furthermore, it explores and analyzes Bororo funerary rituals based on ethnographic accounts and historical documentaries, highlighting their complexity, importance for cultural identity and their relationship with issues of cultural resistance and preservation of collective memory. Of a qualitative nature, the research had theoretical assumptions for analysis, ideas from the following authors initially: Manuela Carneiro Cunha, Francisco Varnhagen, Maria Regina Celestino, João Capistrano Honório de Abreu, Francieli Aparecida Marinato, John Manuel Monteiro and Ailton Krenak, dedicating themselves mainly to indigenous historiography Brazilian then, providing the basis for data on geographic distribution and the ritual itself, the authors, Arthur José Medeiros de Almeida, Loiva Canova, Renate Brigitte Viertler, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Beline Salete Grando. As well, there was na ethnographic documentary investigation into the funeral rituals of 1917.