Unveiling Laklãnõ-Xokleng Stories: The Southern Je Archaeological Context in the Upper Itajaí Valley (Santa Catarina State, Brazil)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation builds on research conducted by the LEIA/UFSC team in the Upper Itajai Valley (Santa Catarina State, Brazil) to put together components of a deep Laklãnõ-Xokleng history associated with the data archaeologically labeled as Southern Je. Contexts related to this archaeological category indicate that sites composed of pithouses began to be built around 1400–1300 BP in this region. However, the Laklãnõ-Xokleng oral history, transmitted by the elders, attests to its ancestral territorial occupation since time immemorial. The components of this long-term history are marked on the landscape in known places and recognized by communities on walks amidst plants, rivers, rocks, animals, and past settlements. This paper discusses similarities, differences, continuities, and discontinuities at the regional level to weave a narrative that considers archaeological variability and Indigenous ontologies. The outcomings of this comparison are interpreted as fragments of stories associated with a long-term Laklãnõ-Xokleng past.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37199.0