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Suicides in Guarani Culture: The Concept of Accultaration in Egon Schaden's Research
por Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcântara,

Sheila Maria Doula e

Cristina Moreira da Rocha



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We can then conclude that there still remains a space of recuperation in the Guaraní imagination, even though the rituals are not performed anymore by the group, it remains inside every Guaraní as an essence of resistence to the White Man.

Thus the search for the Land Without Evil could be the only situation to the "survival" of this culture in the face of current socio-economic conditions that prevail in the Dourados region ( soy capital), considering the over-population of that very reservation, the Guaraní find themselves without physical and symbolic space for their collective rituals.

The individual alternative that remains for them is hanging; in a small tree, it is necessary only to kneel and make enough of na effort to succeed in killing oneself.

The Land without Evil is, today, one of the only cultural references that can be brought up to date. There they find wholeness and the possibility of reaching consumer goods that are only accessible to them on the sacred plane.

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