Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira

Os (des)caminhos da identidade

The aim of the conference was to present an interpretation of the vicissitudes of the ethnical and/or national identity when observed in ambiguous situations. This is when the identity process expresses real or virtual crisis, such as the case of Latin American immigrants in the United States, or the people from different Spanish regions who emigrated to Barcelona, Spanish Catalans with French and Andorrans living in Andorra, and among the Indigenous people on the Brazilian borders with neighboring countries. The examination of the identity process that takes place in different latitudes, in the Americas and Europe, suggests that socio-cultural phenomena of ethnicity and nationality have common characteristics such as the search for recognition of the moral person, the respect to difference, and as an ethnical corollary, the rise of what it could be defined as an index of consideration.

Aliança interclância na sociedade Tukúna

A sociedade Tukú na é segn1entada em grl1pos que se organizam à base da descendênci a patrilinear . Pelo menos duas unidades sociais que ocupam pos ição estra tégica na orden1 social rfukúna seguen1 esta regra : o Clã e a Metade. En1 ambas, a descend ência se estabelec e pela identificaçã o com o grupo por meio dos nomes próprios de cada indivíduo , nomes êsses que se relacio nan1 com algun1a qualidade de ave ou planta que serve de denomi nação à unidade social a ql1e o indivíduo pertence por nascimento .