The Xokleng myth and the imaginary of fear as memory and language of descent of colonizers from the high Valley of Itajaí - SC

Abstract

The myth, to establish itself as such, constitutes arrays-archetypical elements that are narrated and tissues for a given group at a given time and space. Similarly, the strengthening of the myth is through the use of repeated memory exercises and language in the quest to keep alive and updated their perception about a particular event, person, culture, etc. The wires that make up the fabric of these mythical narratives are dyed by socio-historical-cultural context of social actors, so their feelings, experiences and predilections bolster the construction of narratives. This curtails social path and entangles the components of this semantic basin formed in essence by symbolic images constellations, which are now recognized and disseminated even generations. In the case of the narratives of the descendants of settlers of Alto Vale do Itajaí - SC, about Xokleng, elemental traits present an Imaginary of the fear resulting of relationships established by indigenous groups and the first settlers of the region. Finding that evidenced in oral narratives collected in the same place. Understand the strength of this imaginary rescued by memory and reaffirmed by the language is the purpose it is intended that work.