Percepções do erotismo e da sexualidade Kambeba: entre a influência ocidental e os saberes tradicionais

Abstract

This article aims to promote a reflection about how the Indian tribes, Omágua/Kambeba, of Três Unidos Community, in the lower Negro river, design and experience their sexuality. This reflection is part of the problem of the influence of western culture on the rites loving and sexual mores of the natives, practiced or not, as a result of prolonged contact with non-Indians. Within a cultural-historical approach and based on the theory of socialconstructionism , describes the sexual intercourse of the natives with the colonizers , showing the consequences of the civilizing process, to make a parallel with Kambeba sexuality and its manifestations today. It is, therefore, a qualitative approach in which the methodology is exploratory, with ethnomethodological traits, as it focuses on a specific feature of a particular ethnicity and traditions, using techniques such as direct observation collection, open and semistructured interviews. The article presents the perspectives of the study of sexuality based on active experience in which sex education should be focused on the affective dimensions of life, from the perspective of classical authors as Bataille, Freud, Reich, Foucault and intertwining with contributions ethnographic Levi Strauss and others suggesting a more comprehensive understanding of sexual issues in interethnic relations, showing some partial analyzes the outcome of which is systematized in an upcoming dissertation. Key-Word: Sexuality, eroticism, indigenous knowledge and interethnic relationship.