Abstract
The article aimed to analyze and to deepen interpretations about the relation between inequality and pandemic in a psychosocial dimension. It focused on isolation as an emblematic issue for the Sateré-Mawé indigenous people of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, as well as on affection as an analytical category. We sought the Theoretical Reference in Spinoza and Vigotski for an ethical-political conception of affections and interpretive inferences were based on public documents and continued ethnography. We observed affections experienced in the face of a situation of territorial isolation of the ethnic Andirá-Marau Indigenous Territory, which leads to the paradox of this strategy being recommended to indigenous peoples. We conclude that, for native societies, the pandemic has activated historical fears, which are situated from violence of the past. However, it has also contributed to the wisdom that saves lives in the pandemic.
Keywords:
Social psychology; Indigenous peoples; Psychological stress; Affectivity; Amazon