Abstract

ROSAS RIANO, Diana. Learning with the body: experiencing and embodying the power of manioc. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2023, vol.31, n.3, e95281.  Epub Sep 01, 2023. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2023v31n395281.

I pay attention to the narratives about the first menstruation of two women from different generations, Kelly and Eva Yukuna. Treating these narratives as sensory engagements with the body-in-the-world allows me to understand the sense that is ascribed to the process of becoming a woman. I rely on ethnopoetic transcription to grasp how each phase of building an adult female body/person is interwoven to enable a woman to both learn and generate the strength of cassava. The contrast between these two women’s narratives allows me to account for the heterogeneity of experiences of menstruation, as well as the different ways in which these women account for the changes in body and subjectivity by relations with whites implied by the specific colonial history of the Mirití-Paraná region (eastern Amazonia, Colombia).

Keywords : Strength; Women; Yukuna-matapi; Menstruation; Exogamy.

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