ABSTRACT
This article, about the Areruya religion of the Ingarikó people in the village of Manalai, located in the state of Roraima, Brazil, compares the discourse of two myths about the origin of the current Areruya. One of the myths was transcribed by Audrey Butt Colson (1960)BUTT COLSON, Audrey. The Birth of a Religion. Journal of the Royal Anthropological of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 90, No. 1, 1960. pp. 66-106, jan-jun, 1960. in the 1950s, and the other by the anthropologist Maria Virgínia do Amaral (2019)AMARAL, Maria Virgínia Ramos. Os Ingarikó e a religião Areruya. Tese de Doutorado. UFRJ/MN, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2019. between 2014 and 2017. The objective of comparing the two discourses was to present the articulations of each one for a new cosmological and social configuration, following the arrival of the colonizer. To achieve this, we used the idea of the “in-between” from the studies of Homi Bhabha (1994) in The Location of Culture because it allows for the use of text analysis as discourse without fixing any intrinsic meaning to them, creating a sliding space.
KEYWORDS:
Areruya; Ingarikó; Myths; In-between