Jealousy, anger and witchcraft

the construction of the Tukano kinship in the lower Uaupes

Abstract

The article focuses on the specific forms of sociality construction in which cosmopolitical elements operate as fundamental regulators between Tukano subgroups in the lower Uaupes River (Upper Rio Negro Indigenous Land). An analysis of the effort to build kinship is proposed, in which phenomena such as widespread dispersions, escapes and socio-spatial transformations in the face of contact with bosses, as well as the dangers of growing too much and accumulating prestige and power and the relationship between jealousy, anger and witchcraft abound in the interlocutors' accounts. It is expected to contribute to discussions about politics among indigenous peoples of northwestern Amazonia from reports on Ananas, a community marked by cycles of flourishing and decay.