Ykamyabas: Poetics of a Body-Territory

Abstract

This article travels through the rivers and lands of a territorial body in to a lived and imagined Amazon, a place of origin and affection that, telling the stories of the Ykamyabas - a tribe of women without husbands who lived in the lower Amazon river region -, gather the traces left for their mythical imagery in the archetypal relationship of the wild woman in narratives that come mainly through orality, from ways of life that subvert the split of the world operated by the dualisms culture/nature, male/female, body/mind. To articulate scenes and, through photography, reconstruct realities, in a knowledge revealed by the mythical fact of the dream, of becoming an artist, of the subjectivity invested with the body, planting clues to other possible worlds.