This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the communicational cosmopraxis of the
Apinajé people. They are speakers of the Panhĩ Kapẽr language, from the Jê linguistic
branch, present in the Bico do Papagaio region in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. Starting
from the concept of communicational cosmopraxis as an alternative communication
experience that subverts conventional logics and forms, focused on media processes and
mediatization, I propose an interworld communication in an attempt to build
epistemological paths where the indigenous and non-indigenous worlds can coexist in a
movement of listening and mutual affectation (OLIVEIRA, 2018;2020). Through the
ethnographic experience among the Panhĩ people of Pyka Méx village, I highlight
memory as a category of territorial claim responsible for articulating Struggle, Land,
and Mourning as inseparable elements in the constitution of being Apinajé. I chose to
describe and analyze each of these elements based on three events: the Apinajé
responses to the health emergency of COVID-19, the struggle for Land in the
demarcation and reparation process of territorial boundaries, and mourning among the
Apinajé. The communicational cosmopraxis of the Panhĩ from the Pyka Méx village
reveals the margin as a space of resistance and evokes the memories of the struggle for
land in the “time of the first ones”, reactivating actions to protect the Apinajé body-
territory through the formation of new generations of Guardians.
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