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Magüta Arü Inü: Recollecting indigenous thought Priscila Faulhaber 1 Engraved on the CD-ROM Magüta Arü Inü. Memory Play - Magüta Thought, are the results of a Ticuna evaluation of their own ritual masks, clothes and instruments used in their own puberty rituals, and stored in the Ethnological Technical Reserve of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. The masks, clothing, instruments and ritual items that the CD focuses on were collected between 1941 and 1942 - among the Ticuna Indians which live on the frontiers between Brasil, Colombia and Peru (in Eastern Amazon) - by Curt Nimuendaju (1892-1945), a German ethnologist who died in Santa Rita de Weil, a Ticuna tribal village. The items in question are ritual objects used in the puberty ritual carried out after a period of seclusion, when a girl is introduced into society as an adult. The data bank on Ticuna pieces, currently in the Curt Nimuedaju Collection is presented on the CD-ROM and composed of pieces classified as items of ritual dance costume (masks, clothes and sheets) and ritual instruments used in the Ticuna puberty festival. The Museu Goeldi holds in all 444 Ticuna objects, collected by Curt Nimuendaju between 1941 and 1942. Included in this present data bank are also objects that I have collected: 9 pieces in 2000 and 2 in 2002, consisting of masks, clothes, a wheel and a cloth used in the puberty rituals observed during the activities of the project of investigation for the feature of the CD-ROM. The inclusion of these pieces is justified on the grounds that they demonstrate continuity through time of the meanings contained in Ticuna culture, making it possible to compare two historical moments the data bank embraces. The final identification of the pieces focused here was undertaken in a workshop that ran from the 26th of November to the 15th of December 2002, which included the participation of six Ticuna representatives. This participation allowed for a dialogue on the Ticuna social memory and its symbolism of thought. We elaborated an anthropological correlation between the symbolism of the instruments' instruments' and masks'with the myths collected by Curt Nimuendaju and the observations made during Ticuna ceremonies witnessed from September 1997 onwards, in the Ticuna communities. The myths presented in these ceremonies make sense within a chain of meaning associated with the reproduction of identity and the transmission of knowledge and values of Magüta people (these people fished up from the Eware, the mythical igarapé of the dark waters referred to in this people's myth of origin) during the puberty ritual. The Ticuna evaluate the 60 +- year-old objects, in the Goeldi Museum's 1941 and 1942 Nimuendaju Collection, as a way of rethinking their repertory of mythic-ritual knowledge used in today's ceremonies. The electronic media allows everybody to be delve into a virtual frame of planetary communication. Contrary to the printed book, it does not follow a sequence of subjects listed in the summary, or a leafing through pages with bibliographic references. The reading and contemplation of images, sounds and texts exhibited on screens are discontinuous, as the electronic world creates a new way for writing diffusion and propitiates a new relationship with audience, imposing a new form of texts, which makes it possible to transpose anthropology of indigenous thought to digital media. In this way, it is possible to look forward to a new way of sharing knowledge, thus improving scientific research and its dissemination, and as a new tool for elementary, technical and higher education. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 1 Senior researcher in Human Sciences for the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi |
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