INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE RETAKING IN THE NORTHEAST BRAZIL, MINAS GERAIS AND ESPÍRITO SANTO: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC MAPPING

Abstract

This paper aims to draw attention to two important ethnographic aspects of Brazilian Amerindian peoples that have great repercussions for the processes of linguistic recovery that many of them are currently going through across the Northeast region and the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo: the cosmopolitical relations with the “enchanted”, more than human masters guardians of indigenous “science”, and with the territories, understood as a linguistic document of oral languages. Based on the ethnographic cases of the Tuxá from Rodelas-BA (Kariri Family) and Anacé from Caucaia-CE, the article proposes the characterization of the region as an ethnolinguistic area of ​​enchanted languages ​​and the territory as the main linguistic document of languages ​​in the process of retaking.