O DESVELAMENTO DO MUNDO KARAJÁ COLHIDO PELOS NOMES E PELAS IMAGENS DO PSICODIAGNÓSTICO DE RORSCHACH

Abstract

The present work deals with the historical process of the contact between the Brazilian society and the Karajá people, from the native village Hãwalo Mahãdu (Santa Isabel do Morro), in the Bananal Island (Ilha do Bananal), state of Tocantins. The work aims to unveil the Karajá world - marked by this contact through codes and images collected through the Rorschach Psychodiagnostics plates as well as the ethnographic listening, through speeches, hearings, and life stories. The author investigates the impact of this history of contacts of over 300 years on the lives of the Karajá people, today, going through painful and challenging experiences, such as alcohol addiction, malnutrition and diseases, including infant mental disruption, in addition to the threats of the construction of the Araguaia-Tocantins waterway and construction of the road to the Bananal Island, which will destroy their natural habitat. The Rorschach psychodiagnosis, applied in the Karajá dialect, to over 40 individuals, reveals the deepest values kept by these people while it also reveals the results of the malefic contact with the colonizing world. The test reveals a people who still preserve a holistic relationship with their surrounding world. This result, gathered through the application of Rorschach is confirmed by the life of the village: their myths and rituals, their language, their cultural paintings and feasts, which are signs of resilience and cultural survival of the sons and daughters of the Berohokÿ.