A escuta de um discurso étnico

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the speech of an Indian artisan and leader of an indigenous cultural association, which belongs to the Wapixana indigenous group. This Indian woman has lived in Boa Vista (Roraima) since the time of the child. Craft is a symbolic reference that has guided her place of disclosing and preserving of indigenous cultures. A counterpoint to the discourse of Indian artisan is made by bringing to the analysis of discourse another craft leader of association. Her speech is a representation of the other; as opposed, is a representation of non-Indian. The choice of a discursive approach in this analysis stems from the purpose of seeking to understand the functioning of discourse in its ideological determination. Ideology has thus become liable to be gathered in the materiality of discourse. In this context, it is possible to identify the ideological component by interdiscourse and intradiscourse, or the relationship between the ‘already-said’ and what is being said.